Average Quotes
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks.
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y
A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.
Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.
To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.
The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.
Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.
We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
Statistics indicate that the average American is a guy named Brian who lives in Ohio.
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.
We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.
That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.
The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.
In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding
People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.