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