Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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 care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.
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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.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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I can’t be naturalistic enough to make it sound real. So instead, I just wander around aimlessly knowing that I’ll be funny enough with stream of consciousness until I get to the actual explosively funny part.
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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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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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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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I 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.
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All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
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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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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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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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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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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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You know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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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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