Folk-wisdom Quote by Bauvard Download Open image ““Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs.”” — Bauvard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Folk-wisdom Funny Humor Suburban Urban Wisdom
“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“It is downtown that we usually hear about in the national press and it is downtown that is spurring the most development and commerce.… — Aaron Foley Copy Share Image
“Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“City wisdom became almost entirely centered on the problems of human relationships, in contrast to the wisdom of any natural tribal group, where relationships… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
“other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“Its first postulate is that the contemporary urban environment is so complex and so vexatious in its demands that no group of ordinary, unaided… — Adam Greenfield Copy Share Image
“The people of a city blessed with all the good things nature has can grow smug about who they are, can find complacency in… — Robin Cody Copy Share Image
“Not by human dwellings--not in crowded cities alone, are the sights and sounds of life. The wildest places of the earth are full of… — Solomon Northrup Copy Share Image
“This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“explore the neighborhood, view the landscape, to discover at least where it is that we have been so startlingly set down, if we can't… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Mom always said I was born to sit in the electric chair, but I'm proving her wrong. I'm going to die on my knees,… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Dentistry is a precondition to love at first sight. When your eyes meet she beams with happiness, but when you smile back she shows… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“When it’s not enough to veto your children’s tendencies, you must in vitro them.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Don't swallow: your bulging, blushing cheeks display the saliva you want to share.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard. It… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Cannibal: epicures who abstain from alcohol and tobacco. As moral guides, they are underutilized in the police forces of modern societies. ” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“I have never sought to displease; I merely seek pleasure and avoid the pain it causes those who work to produce it. That is… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Religious fasting is the best way to cure an anorexic's spirit: in heaven her condition will be normal.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“People must know who dem be, must remember what important.” - Tanty to Nikki in Oh Gad!” — Joanne C. Hillhouse Copy Share Image
