Definition of Folk

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Definition of Folk
	Folk Alt. of Folks Related Definitions: Alt, Folks, Of

Folk Quotations

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

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

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

Some folk want their luck buttered.
Thomas Hardy

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

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

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

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Van Morrison

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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