The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost… — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. — Walter Dill Scott Copy Share Image
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure.… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The… — Walter Russell Bowie Copy Share Image
An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and… — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was… — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
“Who today reflects that in the Battle of the Somme alone, where every man was an eager volunteer of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, more… — Arthur Stanley Gould Lee Copy Share Image
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man. — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average. — Morrie Brickman Copy Share Image
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[It is a story] to satisfy the expectations of the average man, who wants awful things to happen to over prominent people. — Ted Morgan Copy Share Image
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The average women would perfer beauty over brains because the average man can see better than he can think — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
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