Quotes of: Average-man Keyword

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Theodore Roosevelt

Mattress Guy #1: So is the girl smart? Mattress Guy #2: Well, I guess she's about average. Mattress Guy #1: Average! Man, average is dumb!

American Splendor

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

Mignon McLaughlin

Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Robert H. Schuller

I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.

John Caudwell

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

A. E. Housman

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 seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.

Carlos Castenada

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

Cee Lo Green

The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since ...

Treatise on Man & the Development of His Faculties

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Margaret Sanger

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

Louis D. Brandeis

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Barry Gibb

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

Satchel Paige

Young Charlie: Your picking us as an average family kind of gave me a funny feeling. Jack Graham: What kind of a funny feeling? Young Charlie: Oh, I don't know. I guess I don't like to be an average girl in an average family. Jack Graham: Average fam...

Shadow of a Doubt

Le Mans takes the best out of everyone. Winning is important but it's not everything. It's such a big and great event in motorsport. You do more kilometres in that one race than Formula One do in a season, and probably a higher average speed. We aver...

Tom Kristensen

Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporat...

Rush Limbaugh

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Brooks Robinson

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H. L. Mencken