English Folklore Sayings

#1. It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name - corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals.

Mark Kurlansky

#2. If we knew when we woke up that it would be the last day of our lives, we would transform every little act of our daily humdrum into small farewells.

Alexandre A. Loch

#3. I am the owner of my life, so hold your tongue and let me live.

Debasish Mridha

#4. A trapper but this rappin got me going places you'll never go!

Gucci Mane

#5. I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25.

Bobby Darin

#6. What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying."

Chris Hedges

#7. I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.

Halsey

#8. Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won't get on board.

Molly Ringle

#9. Enjoy the moment while waiting.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.

Merle Haggard

#11. The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

Julian Casablancas

#12. What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

H.L. Mencken

#13. So we just the same, me and you? That's why you the one to shit in the pot and I'm the one to empty it?

Sue Monk Kidd