The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
NORM MACDONALDThere are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I’m thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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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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In love, we are best pleased when we please others.
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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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