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 MACDONALDThough you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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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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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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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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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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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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