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.
NORM MACDONALDDuring misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I don’t have any ambition.
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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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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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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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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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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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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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