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“My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
“It is fatally easy for Western folk, who have discarded chastity as a value for themselves, to suppose that it can have no value for anyone else. At the same time as Californians try to re-invent ''celibacy,'' by which they seem to mean perverse restraint, the rest of us call societies which place a high value on chastity ''backward.''”
Germaine Greer
“Listening is the only way to entertain some folks.”
Kin Hubbard
“Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.”
Allan Massie
“Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.”
John Buchan
“Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!”
Michelle Shocked
“Folks, let me point out something to you, because for a lot of people in Washington, they could not be more surprised if Fidel Castro came loping through on the back of a hippopotamus [this Election Night].”
Dan Rather
“My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me. Of course, the mother I know the most about is the mother of our little group. She has been for 22 years trying to raise to maturity four children, three by birth and one by marriage. While she hasn't done a good job, the poor soul has done all that mortal human could do with the material she had to work with.”
Will Rogers
“Rich folks always talk hard times.”
Lillian Smith
“The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell”
James Whistler
