If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
NORM MACDONALDWe often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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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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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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I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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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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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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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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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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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