The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Edgar Watson Howe

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
John Philip Sousa

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
Ivor Novello

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Francis Quarles

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay Z

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
Leonard Orr

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.
Sam Ewing

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.
Maria Bartiromo

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.
Daniel J. Bernstein

The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.
Paul Weyrich

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Jean Kerr

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.
Peter Sotos

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
Kit Bond

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
Hans Berger

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
Buffalo Bill