Common Folk Quotes

#1. She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

James Ellroy

#2. In ancient times people mistook us for gods, but we peculiars are no less mortal than common folk. Time loops merely delay the inevitable, and the price we pay for using them is hefty - an irrevocable divorce from the ongoing present.

Ransom Riggs

#3. This silliness always starts with celebrities and then spreads to the common folk.

Adam Carolla

#4. Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories.

Raymond E. Feist

#5. When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

Bertolt Brecht

#6. It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#7. Once upon a winter I met a man in the woods The man beckoned me over To see a satchel of goods He offered three wishes I asked for beauty, love, riches And he froze me in stone where I stood. - "The Greedy Ghost of Cypress Pass," common folk song

Marie Lu

#8. Four years of sitting in your room reading, and now you're out here with the common folk," I say. "What did inspire you to suddenly make the trip?"

"I would have come sooner," she says, brushing her hair out of her face. "You just never invited me.

Will Leitch

#9. Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak;

Willard Mullin

#10. The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.

H.L. Mencken

#11. Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#12. But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk, I ran up against the kids in our building and felt fortunate, after a few brushes with those little cannibals, to return to my reading in one piece.

Gunter Grass

#13. I seem to hear thousands of voices
the voices of the common folk in the marketplace
urging me to go forward and do what must be done. More is at stake now than my life. On me turns the future of the warriors. Let's not quibble longer, lest this rare opportunity slip through my fingers.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#14. Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

Charles Baudelaire

#15. Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.

Eric Hoffer

#16. Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.

Charles Baudelaire

#17. I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatmate would react.

Zaki

#18. Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.

Oscar Romero

#19. Hope, by itself, is a car without gas. You need to fuel it with action.

E.J. Divitt

#20. Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

Fatima Bint Muhammad

#21. In any case where someone is hurt within himself because of a mere jealousy over your success expedition, that is none of your business.You don't bring yourself low in order to please those who envy you.

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk - the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?" Shadow hesitated. "Truths," he said. "I've come too far for more lies.

Neil Gaiman

#23. It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.

Samir Okasha

#24. I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

Paul Giamatti

#25. Power rides her fingers, she moves from datashell to datashell, walking the nets like the ghost of a shadow, her trail vanishing behind her as she goes. She carries power in the dark behind her eyes.

Melissa Scott

#26. If you won her heart, you'd be top dawg.

Katy Perry

#27. It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#28. 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.

Ernest Bevin

#29. The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitute for them the folk community, rooted in the soil and bound together by the bond of its common blood.

Adolf Hitler

#30. Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Marcus Aurelius

#31. I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

Greg Graffin

#32. A moral life, without reference to religion, is like a house built upon sand. And religion, divorced from morality, is like sounding brass, good only for making a noise and breaking heads.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. Connie could make her feel slow and bovine; the way she'd suddenly snap her head around and bark a question that would leave Margie fumbling for an answer.

Liane Moriarty

#34. Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

Utah Phillips

#35. The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#36. Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

Chai Lu

#37. I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W. Somerset Maugham