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Folks Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions…
- On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be…
- The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
More Folks Quotes
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I… — Dan Aykroyd
- My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be… — Joan Baez
- Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. — Charles Baudelaire
- The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's… — Jeff Bezos
- Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead of vilifying… — Joe Biden
- Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed… — Joe Biden
- Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination. — Theodor Adorno
- I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the… — Josh Billings
- I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that… — Lewis Black
- In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from… — Lewis Black