Norm MacDonald Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

• A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

  Norm MacDonald

  Love, Disappointment, Hate

• Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

  Norm MacDonald

  Love, Desire, Innocent

• If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

  Norm MacDonald

  Desire, Merit, Praise

• It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

  Norm MacDonald

  Adversity, Desire, Ruins

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