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.
NORM MACDONALD
Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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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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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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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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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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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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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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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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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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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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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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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Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny.
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