Folks Quotes

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• 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 adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, Land

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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  The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Giving, Truth Is, Ends

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.374, Applewood Books

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• When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Differences, Tkam

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.44, Infobase Publishing

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• There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

  Eugene Chadbourne

  Song, Bridges, Building

  "The Billboard book of rock arranging". Book by Mark Michaels, May 1, 1990.

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• A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Intelligent, Touching

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life And Love, Book, Athlete

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Laughing, Kind

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Tkam, Killing Others

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann

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• The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

  Bill W. Clayton

  Relationship, Hurt, Political

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• The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.

  George Herbert

  House, Fine

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.332

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• The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

  William Shakespeare

  Age, Chronicles, Old Age

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

  John Buchan

  Civilization, Modern Life, Quiet

  John Buchan (2011). “The Power-House”, p.28, House of Stratus

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said. 'There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.' You got it backwards, Dill,' said Jem. 'Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them.' Well I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Track

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.176, Random House

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Laughing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

  Euripides

  Long, Imagine, Worst

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• How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sweet, Nature, Morning

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing

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• Folks, we are in the midst of dangerous times like you cannot believe, and Donald J. Trump is the target.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Target, Like You

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Anger

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• Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

  Josh Billings

  Wise, Aging, Grows

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• There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

  George Eliot

  Salt

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.61

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• The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Devil, Wipe

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

  George Eliot

  Patience, Reason Why, Patient

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.445, Wordsworth Editions

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• By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.

  Stephen King

  Littles, Too Much, Fables

  Stephen King (1999). “Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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