Folk Quotes
Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
John Buchan
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire
The rural folk have already learned how to cope. But the urban people are so dependent on the government for distribution.
Tim Peters
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
Dick Smothers
For the folk-community does not exist on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive labor, which is what gives money its value.
Adolf Hitler
Strider" I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.
J.R.R. Tolkien
But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.
J.R.R. Tolkien
There's really no better way to learn about folk craft producers than to produce yourself.
Marysia Galbraith
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
Arnold Bax
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?
Marian Wright Edelman
It is the toughest high school, folk-style tournament in the country. Every senior wants to be here and see just where they are on the national stage.
Keith Shields
Music is a fluid art form that picks up echoes of the past and weaves them into a new sound. The distinct sounds of the past merge together to create what we know today as gospel, western, folk, or jazz.
Ryan Lewis
Women are proverbially too individualistic! There is a popular belief, born out of folk-experience, that three women cannot live in unison!
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Stanley Walker
