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.
NORM MACDONALDI 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.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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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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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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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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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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