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Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. -- A. E. Housman
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done. -- Burt Reynolds
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. -- Robert H. Schuller
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man. -- John Caudwell
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. -- Anatole France
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 is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. -- Marlene Dietrich
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
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
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
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
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't believe in 'super-men,' for the world is full of capable men, but it's the fellow with determination that wins out. -- Charles M. Schwab
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
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
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 corporateers and profiteers. -- Rush Limbaugh
I photograph artists, and some of them are very well known, but if you ask the average man on the street, 'Do you like Anselm Kiefer?' He would stare at you with a blank stare, because these are not celebrities. They are celebrated in a specific circle. -- Anton Corbijn
There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase. -- Ashton Kutcher
The average man. The emergence of the concept. -- Adolphe Quetelet
The average man don't like trouble and danger. -- Mark Twain
The average man is not hard to mystify. -- Howard Thurston
Why is the 'average man' so far below average? -- Bruce Barnbaum
I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything, -- Leo Burnett
The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem. -- Elbert Hubbard
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man. -- Barry Gibb
â??The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. -- Bruce Lee
In real life there is no such thing as the average man. -- Aldous Huxley
Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average. -- Robert Burns
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider. -- Mark Twain
I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Apparently the average man sees woman alternatelyas an inferior being and as an angel. -- Willa Holland
Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
The burdens of a woman are more than the average man could ever endure. -- Honore Daumier
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE. -- Satchel Paige
the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe. -- H. L. Mencken
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth. -- Mark Twain
The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average. -- Morrie Brickman
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible. -- Napoleon Hill
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience. -- W. H. Auden
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion -- Elbert Hubbard
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got. -- William Ralph Inge
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. -- Henrik Ibsen
The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. -- E. W. Howe
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. -- H. L. Mencken
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. -- H. L. Mencken
Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world. -- Vance Bourjaily
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. -- Satchel Paige
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. -- Satchel Paige
I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. -- Michel de Montaigne
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. -- Orison Swett Marden
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common -- Satchel Paige
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity. -- Carlos Castaneda
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. -- Bertrand Russell
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. -- H. L. Mencken
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. -- Henrik Ibsen
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something. -- William B. Munro
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time. -- Andrew Carnegie
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. -- Kurt Cobain
According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. -- Robert Fripp
The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason. -- Michael Feldman
Estimated from a wife's experience, the average man spends fully one-quarter of his life in looking for his shoes. -- Helen Rowland
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it. -- Robert Musil
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of. -- Mark Twain
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one. -- Elbert Hubbard
Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them. -- John Dall
The man who wins is the average man, Not built on any particular plan; Not blessed with any particular luck -- Conrad Hilton
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. -- H. L. Mencken
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. -- Mark Twain
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play. -- Fred Allen
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors. -- Mark Twain
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy. -- Helen Rowland
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent. -- Walter Dill Scott
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. -- H. L. Mencken
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work. -- Arthur Brisbane
The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. -- Wallace D. Wattles
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different. -- Ludwig von Mises
If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God. -- H. L. Mencken
Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped. -- Andy Adams
Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs! -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. -- Terry Pratchett
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men. -- Andy Rooney
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back. -- Bruce Lee
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science. -- Aleister Crowley
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page. -- Evelyn Waugh
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them. -- Gertrude Atherton
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar. -- John Mackey
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. -- Mark Twain
The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. -- H. L. Mencken
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time. -- Andrew Carnegie
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Success is uncommon and not to be enjoyed by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people because we want to be successful, not average. -- Tony Dungy
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichÃ©s. -- H. L. Mencken
In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country. -- Tom Golisano
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days. -- David F. Houston
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate. -- Bernard Williams
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does. -- Carlos Castaneda
The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team. -- Rocky Bridges
A survey has shown that the average man has had sex in a car 15 times. Something to keep in mind next time you're looking for a used car. -- Jay Leno
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year. -- Ezra Pound
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it. -- H. L. Mencken
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer. -- Gracie Allen
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. -- CeeLo Green
The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened. -- Josef Pieper
The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies. -- H. L. Mencken
The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of -- Damian Marley
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it. -- Henry Ford
An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it. -- Carlos Castaneda
Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming. -- Gore Vidal
The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples. -- Walter Lippmann
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing. -- Walter Lippmann
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States. -- Ludwig von Mises

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