Famous quotes containing the words average and/or number:
“May you be ordinary;
Have, like other women,
An average of talents....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“If matrimony be really beneficial to society, the custom that ... married women alone are allowed any claim to place, is as useful a piece of policy as ever was invented.... The ridicule fixed on the appellation of old maid hath, I doubt not, frightened a very large number into the bonds of wedlock.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)