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.
NORM MACDONALDDuring misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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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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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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When 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.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading.
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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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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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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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