Top 1200 Average Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them.

Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter of the rights of little nations (like little Belgium), as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.

If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.

The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.

If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears, and bags under my eyes. But I also see a man who's completely happy with the figure staring back at him.

Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

You know what the average person is? Average.

When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.

Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City.

I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

I think it's a sign that the establishment is going to have to change. For too long they never thought about the average person, because the average person is not organized.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them.

I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Among Hispanics, there is little change in popularity from a grade point average of 1 through 2.5. After 2.5, the gradient turns sharply negative. A Hispanic student with a 4.0 grade point average is the least popular of all Hispanic students, and has 3 fewer friends than a typical white student with a 4.0 grade point average.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.

I think, the left makes a mistake. If you look particularly at the state levels, violent repeat criminals are not punished enough. The average murderer is sentenced to 17 1/2 years but serves six. The average rapist is sentenced to 10 years but serves about three and a half. The average mugger is sentenced to five years and serves little more than one.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.

I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.

To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure.

Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.

By 1979, Chinese people were poorer, on average, than North Koreans. I mean, your average per-capita income in China that year was one third of sub-Saharan Africa's.

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.

Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and wireless within reach. For the evening there is the film, cards, or a meeting to complete a day spent in the office or factory where nothing that is essential has been learnt. With slight variation this picture of a low cultural average holds good over the entire range from factory-hand of clerk to manager or director. Only the personal will to culture, in whatever field and however pursued raises modern man above this level.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

The average citizen saw that the big PACs with the billionaires and the multimillionaires get what they want in Washington, but the average citizen is left behind.

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

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. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.