Average Quotes

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

The average man doesn’t want to be free. He wants to be safe.

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.

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 afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.

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

A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.

Look, in particular, at the people who, like you, are making average incomes for doing average jobs – bank vice presidents, insurance salesman, auditors, secretaries of defense – and you’ll realize they all dress the same way, essentially the way the mannequins in the Sears menswear department dress. Now look at the real successes, the […]

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn’t turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to […]