He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
NORM MACDONALDAll my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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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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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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 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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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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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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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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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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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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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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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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