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.
NORM MACDONALDThe young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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A lot of writers come from Harvard and such, and are rich, and they write under the misapprehension that poor people are stupid. So when they do write them, they are hillbillies or rednecks or Christian idiots.
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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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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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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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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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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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Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there’s always beer.
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