He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
NORM MACDONALDThey that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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