Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
NORM MACDONALDWith the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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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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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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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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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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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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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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