It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
NORM MACDONALDYeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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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 first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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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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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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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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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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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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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’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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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.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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