Words matter. These are the best Average Man Quotes from famous people such as Walter Gropius, John Caudwell, Knute Rockne, Marlene Dietrich, Anthony Ray Hinton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been invented centuries ago in countries like Greece or Italy and that all we can do about it is study it carefully and apply it.
I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
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.
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Being in a five-by-seven every day for 365 days a year is more than what the average man could stand. You weren’t built to be in a cage that long.
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.
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.
‘Playboy’ operated with a patina of civility that granted the average man a presumption of pleasure that went one way – his. And that permission flourished in the psyches of all kinds of men.
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.
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.
I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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.
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ’s footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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.
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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.
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.
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
