Based on a True Story: A Memoir
A source page for quotes linked to Norm MacDonald.
“It was like a broken calculator... It just didn't add up.”
“And then that big Chris laugh. Man, I miss that laugh. That big Chris laugh.”
“I understood then that it takes a powerful imagination to see a thing for what it really is.”
“If you're looking for the suspect in a suicide bombing, here's a clue: Look for the dead guy.”
“Kenny G has a Christmas album out this year. Hey, happy birthday Jesus! Hope you like crap!”
“The character of giving advice often makes us accountable for the conduct of those we advise.”
“Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.”
“If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.”
“A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.”
“Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.”
“A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.”
“Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.”
“We would seldom be deceived by flattery, did our own conceit not promote the delusion.”
“It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.”
“The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.”
“Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.”
“During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.”
“Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.”