Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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 vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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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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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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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.
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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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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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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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