Norm MacDonald Quotes
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I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.
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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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In love, first please the eye, then win the heart.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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You ever be having a really good dream, and then, uh- right in the middle of the dream you wake up, right in the best part of the dream? And there you are, back in your stinkin' life again? Man, that's rough, eh?
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Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.
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None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.
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In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.
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If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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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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A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
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It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.