We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
NORM MACDONALDWe often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
NORM MACDONALDInstead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
NORM MACDONALDI 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.
NORM MACDONALDThe praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
NORM MACDONALDThe 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.
NORM MACDONALDChastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
NORM MACDONALDMost men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
NORM MACDONALDWith the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
NORM MACDONALDComedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
NORM MACDONALDNote to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
NORM MACDONALDBack 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 MACDONALDWhen 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.
NORM MACDONALDThere 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.
NORM MACDONALDFew are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
NORM MACDONALDYou know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
NORM MACDONALDI don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
NORM MACDONALD