The Average man (n.) is like a crash-test dummy, built out of everyone and shaped like no one
The Average man (n.) is invoked by whoever is about to overrule him
The Average man (n.) is a statistical creature every person has met and none has been
The Average man (n.) does not consider himself the average man.
A Bad man (n.) does not know he is one, and that is the qualification.
A Bad man (n.) is much easier to identify once he has stopped being useful.
The Bad man (n.) is like weather in a house, planned around by everybody and named out loud by no one.
The Bad man (n.) is often successful — into the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone.
The Beggar (n.) is to be abolished: it is irritating to give to them and it is irritating not to.
The Beggar (n.) always becomes a hypocrite, as does anyone who professionally displays a lack: he must make it felt more acutely than he feels it.
A Beggar (n.) is a robber who has lost his nerve—a bandit with a streak of yellow in his ego.
The Beggar (n.) is never satisfied — a beggar’s sack is bottomless.
The Best man (n.) is chosen for a single weekend by a man he might not telephone again for years.
The Best man (n.) has one duty and one speech, and the speech is what gets remembered.
The Best man (n.) is one chosen to keep the bridegroom from escaping before the ceremony.
The Best man (n.) is not really the best man. If he were, then why is the bride not marrying him?