There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
NORM MACDONALDI always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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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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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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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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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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They say that if you’re afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you’re actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I’m afraid of dogs.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
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