“The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.” MoneyFictionFamilyPaperAverageBudgetsConvenienceStatistician Book:Money Source: Money
“Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?” KnowsInspirationalPersonsMotivationalAgeFamilyInstitutionsAverageAverage PersonDid You KnowLast Kiss Author:Rachel Bilson
“The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women” MenLoveLifeHeartLongRunningHappinessSuccessCoursesNationsAttitudeFamilyProgressMen And WomenHistoricalAverageDuesLong RunsAverage ManSoundness Author:Queen Elizabeth II
“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.” IfsStoriesFamilyViolenceMissingTelevisionAverageRogerDepravityCrispsAllan Poe Author:Quentin Crisp
“The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.” LifeBookFamilyMembersTradeAverageMilkShelvesYogurtShelf Life Author:Calvin Trillin
“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.” ArtistFamilyClassMiddleSonComfortAverageMiddle ClassGiftedSpeculationPeasantsPoorestTrampsRoadside Book:The Complete Works of J. M. Synge Source: The Complete Works of J. M. Synge