Average Man Quotes

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G. Allen

Crazy, Understand, Dream

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

Work, Harder, Average

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

Beautiful, Woman, Him

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

Sex, Woman, Average

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

Struggle, Different, Average

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Golda Meir

Nothing, Doubt, Blame

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France

Life, Another, Last

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Colin Wilson

Rain, Accepting, Standing

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
Knute Rockne

Life, Success, Football

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.
Kevin Bacon

Tell, Talking, Bit

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
Burt Reynolds

Marriage, Done, Laundry

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
Crystal Eastman

Ignorance, Him, Cheerful

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

Criticism, Average, Critic

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
Ernst Mach

Life, Knowledge, End

The average man is not hard to mystify.
Howard Thurston

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