anyone know the expression it takes one man to do ...... and many to do .......?

Question

its some old expression and i dont remember it.

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but there is this Sherlock Holmes dialogue by Arthur Conan Doyle.

“Winwood Reade is good upon the subject,” said Holmes. “He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. But do I see a handkerchief? Surely there is a white flutter over yonder.” ~~Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four, ch. 10