Quotes About Average

As cynic H. L. Mencken once pointed out, "The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

You are the only judge of whether a piece of art is a piece of art! It's the average man who is the judge. It's not the effete academic who will determine whether a piece of art is a piece of art anymore than an academic can tell you whether a baseball player is really a great baseball player. It's the fan in the stadium that will tell you whether he's a great baseball player.

The tax for being mediocre comes from you and everyone else knowing that you are mediocre. It's a heavier tax than you'd think.

Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Self-talk is beautiful. That's the roam where the genius gains his inspiration; but the average man is crushed to the ground.

Only a mediocre man is always at his best

On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now," and "Half the people you know are below average." Typical for the Eastern student body.

Hay dos panes. Usted se come dos. Yo ninguno. Consumo promedio: un pan por persona.

the fracturing of our society is grounded not in the weaknesses of a particular leader but in the inability of our institutions to deliver meaningful social progress for the average citizen.

In fact, fatal assaults on police officers are statistically rare. The FBI reports that in each year over the past decade, an average of fifty-one (of almost 1 million) officers were feloniously killed.

To aim at erxcellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

upon the Median

Normal is just a settng on your dryer

George Carlin's voice: "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Even if it is true that the average man seems most comfortable with the commonplace and familiar, it is equally true that catering to bad taste, which we so readily attribute to the average reader, merely perpetuates that mediocrity and denies the reader one of the most easily accessible means for esthetic development and eventual enjoyment.

Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name.

She's in leggings, like the pregnant twenty-year-old in the tie-dyed vest next to her. Leggings. Bloody hell. Imagined by fatties everywhere to create a slimming effect, they make the average body look like a sack full of hammers.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

the only useful thing we did for the average citizen by then was to hand out official crime numbers for insurance claims.

the average cost of murder per head ultimately came out to about two German pfennig (pennies) a person, which is to say less than one U.S. cent in 1942.