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Folk Quotes (page 16)

Thomas Hardy quote: "Some folks want their luck buttered."
Some folks want their luck buttered. Thomas Hardy
Good creatures, do you love your lives And have you ears for sense? Here is a knife like other knives, That cost me eighteen pence. I need but stick it in my heart And down will come the sky, And earth's foundations will depart And all you folk will die. A. E. Housman
Louis Armstrong quote: "There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em."
There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em. Louis Armstrong
For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea. William Butler Yeats
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. Bob Dylan
George Eliot quote: "It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient."
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. George Eliot
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it. Neil Gaiman
George Carlin quote: "It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya."
It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya. George Carlin
I’d always wanted to play an instrument myself, but my folks didn’t have the dough to buy me one, and I didn’t have the patience to learn anyway. My attention span was five seconds. Ozzy Osbourne
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it. L. M. Montgomery
Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing. Evelyn Waugh
When they came to harvest my corpse(open your mouth, close your eyes)cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twicefor the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at themin a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to lookout at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill willstaring then in the foreheadand turn tail. Before, I was not a... Margaret Atwood
Harper Lee quote: "I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can..."
I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. Harper Lee
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free..."
Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces! J. R. R. Tolkien
Personally I don’t endorse the notion of mortality. It’s fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we’re not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule?" - Kinsey Millhone Sue Grafton

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