It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
NORM MACDONALDDuring misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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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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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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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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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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