Folk Wisdom Quotes

#1. Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

Edward Abbey

#2. Falling in love with you? That was the best gift I've ever been given.

A.L. Jackson

#3. It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

Donnie McClurkin

#4. These things happen in threes,' said Milly in her way of uttering bits of folk-wisdom; she was spooning tea into the heated teapot. She always mixed tea with maxims.

Muriel Spark

#5. I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

Hunter S. Thompson

#6. So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned to listen."
-Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South

Jim Korkis

#7. Folk wisdom in software development teaches that interfaces shouldn't be unduly influenced by implementations. Writing a test first is a concrete way to achieve this separation.

Kent Beck

#8. Folk wisdom: quaint sayings of urban sophisticates compiled from the suburbs.

Bauvard

#9. Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

#10. I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

Taya Kyle

#11. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

Charlie Munger

#12. I want him everywhere. I burn for him in places he hasn't even touched.

Amanda Bouchet

#13. Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#14. You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Eric Ries

#15. liberal society, in its heart, wants not only domination of the military, but acquiesence of the military toward the liberal view of life.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#16. One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

Oscar Wilde

#17. Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.

Rita Gelman

#18. My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

Roald Dahl

#19. The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.

Roksanda Ilincic

#20. The mass of mankind, Burke implies, reason hardly at all, in the higher sense, nor ever can: deprived of folk-wisdom and folk-law, which are prejudice and prescription, they can do no more than cheer the demagogue, enrich the charlatan, and submit to the despot.

Russell Kirk

#21. I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

Gore Vidal

#22. I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.

Don Knotts

#23. From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#24. A revolution such as ours is not a trial, but a clap
of thunder for the wicked. Good strikes like a thunderbolt, innocence is a flash of lightning - a flash of
lightning that brings justice. Even the pleasure-seekers - in fact, they above all - are
counterrevolutionaries.

Albert Camus

#25. I realize that I probably seem obsessed with food and animals. That's because they're the two strangest things in the entire world. Just sit in a room and think about them. Actually, don't, because you might have a panic attack.) So

Jesse Andrews

#26. People must know who dem be, must remember what important." - Tanty to Nikki in Oh Gad!

Joanne C. Hillhouse

#27. Be your self at your personal best

John Paul Warren

#28. I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

Marie Dressler

#29. The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, There is no folk wisdom.

Jennifer Senior