It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
NORM MACDONALDA lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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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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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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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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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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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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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Ever see this? It’s a homeless guy but he’s got a dog… The dog’s really thrilled with this idea. The dog’s going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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