Average Man Quotes

112 quotes by 83 authors

Why is the 'average man' so far below average? — Bruce Barnbaum
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was… — Bernard Williams
Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is… — Frank Capra
The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of… — Damian Marley
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. — Orison Swett Marden
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree… — Mark Twain
The average man. The emergence of the concept. — Adolphe Quetelet
Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so… — Gracie Allen
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to… — James M. Cain
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition… — Walter Lippmann
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. — Michel de Montaigne
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldnâ€™t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is… — Adolf Hitler
There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a… — Kevin Bacon
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that… — William Ralph Inge
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce

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