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| Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. | Arnold Bennett | 1867-1931, British Novelist |
| Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. | Edward De Bono | 1933-, British Writer On Thinking Process |
| A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. | Hugh Maclennan | 1907-1990, Canadian Novelist, Essayist |
| The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be... | John Maynard Keynes | 1883-1946, British Economist |
| Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. | Jim Rohn | American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher |
| The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. | Johann Friedrich Von Schiller | 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian |
| Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous] | A. W. Tozer | ?-1963, American Preacher |
| If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero. | Alfred P. Sloan | American Business Executive, Former Chairman GM |
| The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. | Anatole France | 1844-1924, French Writer |
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| 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 | 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist |
| 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. | Arnold Bennett | 1867-1931, British Novelist |
| Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-colour catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. | Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz | 1613-1679, French Statesman, Prelate |
| Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. | Carl Jung | 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist |
| The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. | Charles M. Schwab | 1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman |
| The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. | Colin Powell | 1937-, American Army General |
| Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. | Dean William R. Inge | 1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London |
| The average man's judgement is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
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| The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. | Francis Quarles | 1592-1644, British Poet |
| Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterwards, and you will have the truth about him. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| 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 | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation? | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. | Heartland Advisor | |
| A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. | Herbert Spencer | 1820-1903, British Philosopher |
| The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing, but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. | J. Frank Doble | 1888-1964, American Author |
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| The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. | Jean Kerr | 1923-, American Author, Playwright |
| A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. | John B. S. Haldane | 1892-1964, British Scientist, Author |
| Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. | John D. Rockefeller | 1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon |
| The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. | Katharine Hepburn | 1907-, American Actress, Writer |
| Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. | Kin Hubbard | 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist |
| The average person thinks he isn't. | Larry Lorenzoni | |
| Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. | Leroy 'Satchel' Paige | 1906?-1982, American Baseball Player |
| If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. | M. H. Alderson | |
| I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. | Mahatma Gandhi | 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader |
| I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
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| Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. | Milton Friedman | 1912-, American Economist |
| 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. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame. | Orison Swett Marden | 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine |
| Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in. | Paul J. Meyer | American Businessman, Author, Motivator |
| Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. | Paul Klee | 1879-1940, Swiss Artist |
| If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. | Quentin Crisp | 1908-, British Author |
| The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists. | Sam Ewing | |
| Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. | Sigmund Freud | 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis |
| If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you. | Source Unknown | |
| Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top. | Source Unknown | |
