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.
NORM MACDONALDIt is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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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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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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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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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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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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