Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
NORM MACDONALDI 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.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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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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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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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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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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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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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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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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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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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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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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