Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. — Edward Abbey
Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy… — George Jones
If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,--… — Paul Revere
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire,… — Orson Scott Card
My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from… — Dorothy Parker
The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long… — Hart Crane
I mean a global warming advocate is as wrong as anybody could be about anything, folks. It's a hoax. There is no man-made global warming.… — Rush Limbaugh
It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another… — Rush Limbaugh
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it. — George Eliot
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I hadn’t… — Robert A. Heinlein
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough… — Alan Shepard
Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter, — Katherine Paterson
White folks' greed runs a world in need. — Jeremiah Wright
New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional… — Wynton Marsalis
Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of… — Pierre Bourdieu
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the… — Anne McCaffrey
The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to… — Art Linkletter
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. — Toni Cade Bambara
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the… — Nigel Kneale
...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk. — Unknown Author
A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in… — Jerry Smith
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ...… — Al Sharpton
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great… — Leonard Ravenhill
Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist.… — Eva Paterson
Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole… — Rose Fyleman

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