In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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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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Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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