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.
NORM MACDONALDChastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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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 love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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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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A 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.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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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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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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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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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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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 think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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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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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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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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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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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