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.
NORM MACDONALDI think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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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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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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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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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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