We've found 8 quotes for 'folk' (0.101 seconds):
| "Try everything once except incest and folk dancing." »Sir Thomas Beecham |
| "Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company." »Jerome K. Jerome |
| "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations." »William Feather |
| "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." »Sir Arnold Bax |
| "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 |
| "The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all." »Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| "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 akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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