As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
NORM MACDONALDThe reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That’s what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn’t have a stupid opinion about it.
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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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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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There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion.
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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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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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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