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I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there. — Petronius

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much. — Walter Savage Landor

All that makes a lunatic are the very ordinary ideas of mankind shut up inside a man's head. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. — William Wordsworth

Strong men need strong love, and a soft touch. Once you fall in love with a man like that, there's no going back to ordinary. — Lauren Gilley

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. — Mahatma Gandhi

His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy. — Juliet Marillier

The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. — William Stanley Jevons

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways. — Tahir Shah

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. — Blaise Pascal

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. — William Halsey

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place — Nelson Mandela

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all. — Alexander Theroux

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men — Tunku Abdul Rahman

There are no great men, only ordinary men, who have met extraordinary challenges. — William Halsey

There are no extraordinary men ... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. — William Halsey

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men. — Thomas Adcock

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

Ordinary men commit extraordinary evil all the time. Trust me. — Mindy Mejia

Great men and women are not extraordinary people who do extraordinary things. They are ordinary people who do ordinary things with integrity. — Jayce O'Neal

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent. — Aldous Huxley

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. — Sigmund Freud

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence. — William Shakespeare

True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities. — E.F. Schumacher

For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us. — Virginia Woolf

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star. — Ray Davies

Ordinary men, we have seen, are not much interested in any political problems which do not immediately affect themselves. — Aldous Huxley

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. — D.H. Lawrence

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. — Joseph Addison

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman. — Eleanor Dark

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded. — Ramana Maharshi

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can. — John Prine

It is almost a sadness to my soul that men should be astonished and surprised at an ordinary, tangible evidence of the power of God. — John G. Lake

It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back. — Ian McEwan

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance. — Thomas Merton

We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women. — Carl Jung

Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse. — Friedrich Schiller

Great men are just ordinary men that didn't quit. — Tommy Barnett

He realized that the path of love, which Bertlef had suggested, was closed to him; it was the path of saints, not of ordinary men. — Milan Kundera

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. — John Dall

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. — Pam Brown

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful. — Philip K. Dick

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does. — Harpo Marx

To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions. — Thomas Merton

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man. — George Meade

I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist. — Hiroyuki Takei

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. — George Orwell

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion. — Kate Chopin

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife ! — Akbar

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. — Wilferd Peterson

We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life. — Matt Chandler

Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. — Henry David Thoreau

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. — Henry David Thoreau

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart. — Sri Aurobindo

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest, — George Herbert

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God. — Nancy Holder

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men ... learn to suffer. — Mark Twight

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men. — Yoshida Shoin

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man — Rajneesh

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary. — Peter O'Toole

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. — Elbert Hubbard

When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man. — Gautama Buddha

A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life. — Archibald Primrose

But an ordinary day can mark the beginning of an extraordinary journey! — Elizabeth George

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. — Denis Diderot

The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. — Jacob Bronowski

If you had all the resources in the world at your disposal to hire anybody you want who would you hire, ordinary unschooled men (Acts 4:13). — Jonah Books

The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows. — Theodore Roosevelt

monsters always look just like ordinary men. — Deborah Harkness

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. — Louis XIV

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage! — Bayode Ojo

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. — Napoleon Bonaparte

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. — Adyashanti

Powerful men tire of their toys easily. And the novelty of a pet doesn't last forever. After a while even the prettiest things become ordinary. — Kate Jarvik Birch

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization. — Woodrow Wilson

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. — Thucydides

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. — George Henry Lewes

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. — Lao-Tzu