Average Man Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Father, Men, Average

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• 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

  Christian, Eye, Reality

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.23, Ignatius Press

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• Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.

  Frank Capra

  Dream, Strong, Children

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• 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

  Men, Average, Roots

  Song: Patience

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

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Average, Criticism

  Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Determination, Men, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Writing, Men

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• 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

  Men, Average, Rising Up

  "For-Profit Medicine Under Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. January 9, 2013.

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sex, Men, Average

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.44, BookBaby

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• Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Average, Illusion

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “The Wild Duck”, p.85, Jester House Publishing

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• 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

  Men, Average, Justice

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.113, Vintage

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• 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

  Goodbye, Cutting, Men

  "Has Texting Killed Romance?" by Ashton Kutcher, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 8, 2010.

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• 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

  Men, Average, Doubt

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

  Burt Reynolds

  Marriage, Men, Average

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• ...When a man first awakens, it sometimes takes several moments before he starts thinking clearly." "And here I thought it took several years, perhaps a lifetime for the average man's intellect to kick in.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Thinking, Average

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.763, Dell

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• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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• To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

  Thomas Mann

  Running, Fashion, Art

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• the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Average

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• 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

  Hate, Men, Average

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Love Is, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.149, Canongate Books

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• I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything.

  Leo Burnett

  Smart, Men, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Average, Organization

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, (p. 274), 1964.

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• The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands. The average man ought to be allowed a quotation of no less than three sentences, one to make his statement and two to explain what he meant. Ralph Waldo Emerson was about the only one who could stand having his utterances broken up into sentence quotations, and every once in a while even he doesn’t sound so sensible in short snatches.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Average, Two

  Robert Benchley (1951). “My ten years in a quandary and how they grew”

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• To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Hero, Men, Average

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• Only in very recent times has the average man been a source of savings.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Average, Saving

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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