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.
NORM MACDONALDI got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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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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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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I don’t care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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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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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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