Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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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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I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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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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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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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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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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