Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
NORM MACDONALDThe beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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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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I don’t have any ambition.
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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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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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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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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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