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If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God ...
— H.L. Mencken
In real life there is no such thing as the average man.
— Aldous Huxley
Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.
— Vance Bourjaily
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
— Colin Wilson
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
— Wallace D. Wattles
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
— Elbert Hubbard
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
— Jerome K. Jerome
The average educated man possesses no real individuality. He is simply a manufactured article bearing the stamp of the maker.
— Harold Edward Gorst
The average man," explained the late Dr. Ernst Jokl, "loses fifty percent of his muscle mass between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done.
— Burt Reynolds
Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.
— Benjamin Graham
I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder ... I'm an average man ... with a truly extraordinary wife
— Jasper Fforde
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
— Walter Dill Scott
I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything,
— Leo Burnett
Because you are so good it makes me wish I had a heart. For you, I'd try to be an average man with feelings and everything.
— Ainsley Booth
If there is one thing that the average woman detests more than another, it is an entirely reasonable man.
— R. Austin Freeman
The average man. The emergence of the concept.
— Adolphe Quetelet
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
— Anatole France
Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
— Helen Rowland
The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.
— Morrie Brickman
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
— W. H. Auden
The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.
— Elbert Hubbard
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
— Marlene Dietrich
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
— William B. Munro
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
— Kurt Cobain
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
— Orison Swett Marden
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
— Terry Pratchett
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
— John Caudwell
A wise man once asked to his mentor, "What advice would you give the average investor?" his reply was, "DON'T BE AVERAGE.
— Celeste Young
The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan;
Not blessed with any particular luck — Conrad Hilton
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
— Helen Rowland
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
— Mark Twain
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
— Mark Twain
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
— H.L. Mencken
The average man is not hard to mystify.
— Howard Thurston
I am entirely convinced that what is more than anything else lacking in the life of the average well-intentioned man of to-day is the reflective mood.
— Arnold Bennett
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
— H.L. Mencken
Orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
— Gertrude Atherton
Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
— Mark Twain
Why is the 'average man' so far below average?
— Bruce Barnbaum
A woman without a man a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. — Barbara Kingsolver
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
— Michel De Montaigne
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
— Bertrand Russell
Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.
— Shirley Hazzard
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
— H.L. Mencken
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.
— Robert Musil
You can never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to.
— Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
— Andrew Carnegie
Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel.
— Willa Holland
The mere will to live was clearly no match for the pains and aggravations that punctuate the life of the average Western man.
— Michel Houellebecq
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
— Mark Twain
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
— Henrik Ibsen
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
— Robert Fripp
I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
— Theodore Roosevelt
While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that will never change.
— Nicholas Sparks
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
— H.L. Mencken
I had a new persona, not of my choosing. I was Average Dumb Woman Married to Average Shitty Man. He had single-handedly de-amazed Amazing Amy.
— Gillian Flynn
He was an average man. A man willing to accept things as they were, and, because of this, he lacked the potential to be in anyway original.
— Nicole Krauss
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
— Henrik Ibsen
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
— William Ralph Inge
