A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
NORM MACDONALDThe beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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 want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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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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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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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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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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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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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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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin’ life again? Man, that’s rough, eh?
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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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