Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
NORM MACDONALDLiberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
More Norm MacDonald Quotes
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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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I want you to buy this pit bull. This will protect your valuables.’ I don’t own anything very valuable. If I buy the pit bull, that would be the most valuable thing I own. I’d have to buy something to protect it then.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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When people told the audience that [Sam Kinison] was good, he was accepted after that.
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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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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.
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There 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.
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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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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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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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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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As evacuation eases the body, so occasional ejectment of passion seems to appease the agonies of the soul, and dispose to tranquility the agitations of the heart.
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