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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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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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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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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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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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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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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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