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.
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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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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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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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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I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
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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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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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This would have been a great game to watch if we didn’t have any money on it.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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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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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 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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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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Ever see this? It’s a homeless guy but he’s got a dog… The dog’s really thrilled with this idea. The dog’s going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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