Quotes About Average

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

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

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I want to come across as an average guy, talking to his neighbor.

DDP was the common guy, the everyman, a blue-collar guy from New Jersey. He represented something that the average person could believe in, in a way that was a little unique.

My genius, if I can call it that, is to combine a whole load of averageness into one compact frame.

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.

Looking at his reflection in the dark window, Litvinoff believed something had been peeled away and a truth revealed to him: 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 any way original. And though he was wrong in every way about this, after that night nothing could dissuade him.

I am profoundly vanilla.

He was a mediocre man. He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre, rendering him perfect.

He hovered on unexceptionality.

That American democracy is much more delicate than I was willing to admit. I always knew there was a power-hungry ruling class, but I didn't allow myself to see how many people would be willing to kneel in front of it. Maybe freedom just demands too much of the average citizen. Too much personal responsibility. Too many opportunities for failure.

Maybe freedom just demands too much of the average citizen. Too much personal responsibility. Too many opportunities for failure.

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?

There are few physiques I loathe more than the heavy low-slung pelvis, thick calves and deplorable complexion of the average coed (in whom I see, maybe, the coffin of coarse female flesh within which my nymphets are buried alive).

Nichts auf der Welt verabscheue ich mehr als kollektive Aktivität, diese öffentliche Badeanstalt, wo sich die Behaarten und die Glitschigen zu einer Multiplizierung der Mittelmäßigkeit treffen.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

IS IT A SIN TO BE AVERAGE?

I saw one survey of over 150,000 college students where everyone—that's right, every single person—rated themselves as above average in their ability to get along with others. That means at least 75,000 of them were mildly to seriously delusional!