Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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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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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.
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I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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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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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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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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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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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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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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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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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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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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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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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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