There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
NORM MACDONALDComedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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