Norm MacDonald Quotes

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• In giving advice, aptitude is often less to be considered, than seasonableness.
• Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
• We advise others better than ourselves.
• It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
• We are happy at the respect others pay our favorites, because we consider it a lively confirmation of our own choice, and as so much…
• Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.
• The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
• He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
• It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.
• There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to…
• Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.
• Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
• With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
• Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
• Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.
• The man that does not fear punishment, little regards crime.
• The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
• Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
• All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
• 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…

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