The Average Man Quotes
Collection of top 94 famous quotes about The Average Man
The Average Man Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Average Man quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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 man don't like trouble and danger.
— Mark Twain
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
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
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
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
— Mark Twain
If there is one thing that the average woman detests more than another, it is an entirely reasonable man.
— R. Austin Freeman
The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.
— Morrie Brickman
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
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
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes.
— Helen Rowland
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
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
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
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
— William B. Munro
The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
— Michael Feldman
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
— Arthur Brisbane
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
— Aleister Crowley
Wow," a man said. "The song made you sound like an average loser, but in reality you were a horribly pathetic loser.
— Christopher Healy
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 a Pirate.
— Bernard Williams
There is no happiness for any individual, man or woman, who does not dwell within the broad zone of average. Pandora
— Lisa Kleypas
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
— Carlos Castaneda
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
— Elbert Hubbard
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
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
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 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
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
— Mark Twain
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
— William Ralph Inge
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 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
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
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
— Henrik Ibsen
Why is the 'average man' so far below average?
— Bruce Barnbaum
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
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
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
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
— Robert Fripp
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
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
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
— Mark Twain
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
— Henrik Ibsen
I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
— Mark Twain
