The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
NORM MACDONALDI’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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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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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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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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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 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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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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