The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
NORM MACDONALDThey say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?
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Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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