The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
NORM MACDONALDYou know, with Hitler, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
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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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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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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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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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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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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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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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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Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.
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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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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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