Country Average

Famous quotes containing the words country and/or average:

“As to politics, we were like the rest of the country people in England; that is to say, we neither knew nor thought any thing about the matter.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)

“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)