Folksy Wisdom Quotes

#1. What are you eating?" he ask us.
"Whatever won't kill me, please" I said.
"Whatever don't kill you'll make you stronger" says Eddie, who is always ready with folksy wisdom.
"All right," I say. "Then give me whatever will make me stronger."
"One pizza, coming up.

Adam Selzer

#2. But at the end of every show we would realize that true happiness often lies where you very least expect it. It might arrive in a form of a gentle breeze or a handful of peanuts, but when it came, we would seize it with our own brand of folksy wisdom.

David Sedaris

#3. If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure.

Sunday Adelaja

#4. India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#5. The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Neil Gaiman

#6. SSRIs augment social dominance behaviors, elevating an animal's status in the hierarchy. So they may well help women get along, and even get ahead, in the workplace, but at what cost?

Julie Holland

#7. Purify your heart with prayer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents

A. Lee Martinez

#9. When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.

Tracie Peterson

#11. It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Shermer

#12. Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."

pg 185

Veronica Roth

#13. I felt that chess ... is a science in the form of a game ... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Bobby Fischer

#14. You don't need to be married to love someone,' Leas said.

A.E. Croft

#15. Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Rufus Choate