There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
NORM MACDONALDThough we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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