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Definition of Folk

Folk

Alt. of Folks

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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
H. L. Mencken

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles Baudelaire

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.
William Feather

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
Moliere

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

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

Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
Theodor Adorno

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.
John Fahey

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.
John Fahey

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
Roald Dahl

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.
David Knopfler

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.
Ben Harper

Folk is bare bones music.
Ben Harper

I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
Nathan Lane

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
Ray Stannard Baker

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
Bruce Springsteen

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
Ron Wood

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
Johannes Sebastian Bach

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.
Neil Gaiman

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.
Alice Hoffman

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
Alice Hoffman

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Daisy Berkowitz

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
David Soul

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.
Piers Anthony

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
Piers Anthony

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Folk Translations

folk in Danish is folk
folk in Dutch is volk
folk in Finnish is kansa
folk in French is peuple
folk in German is Leute
folk in Italian is gente
folk in Norwegian is mennesker, folk
folk in Portuguese is povo, povos
folk in Spanish is pueblo
folk in Swedish is folk

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