During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
NORM MACDONALDIgnorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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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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The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.
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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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