(737 quotes found)
“There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.”
Will Rogers
“Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.”
Mark Twain
“They criticize me for harping on the obvious - If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves”
Calvin Coolidge
“Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”
Sir Walter Scott
“A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.”
David Letterman
“Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.”
Richard Wright
“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”
Harry Chapin
“All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song”
Louis Armstrong
“Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.”
William S. Burroughs
“Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.”
Sir Thomas Beecham
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