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folk
«The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.»
«The pseudonymous perpetrator of America's only unsolved airline hijacking [is] a folk hero as shadowy as Deep Throat and as morally troublesome as Jesse James.»
Author: David Gates
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
airline, airlines, folk, folk hero, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, James, Jesse, Jesse James, morally, perpetrator, perpetrators, pseudonymous, shadowy, throat, troublesome, unsolved
«There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.»
«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»
«The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?»
Author: Marian Wright Edelman
| Keywords:
folk, in reality, middle class, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgages, mortgaging, raises, reduction, reductions
«This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
casting, characters, Characters in, doubts, excepting, fairy, fiction, folk, imaginary, imaginary being, offend, thereof, The characters, This is a, unwise
«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.»
Author: William Feather
| About:
Experience,
Quotations,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
fables, folk, in perpetuity, perpetuity, preserved, Proverbs, quotations, sayings
«There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: / The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; / The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; / The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; / The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
ants, bands, exceeding, feeble, folk, four things, houses, palaces, rocks, spider, summer house, The Ants, The Rocks, The Spider
«The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots; / They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.»
«The only really happy folk are married women and single men.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
folk, married, married man, married woman, single
