Definition of Folks

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Definition of Folks

Folks

In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.

People in general, or a separate class of people; -- generally used in the plural form, and often with a qualifying adjective; as, the old folks; poor folks.

The persons of one's own family; as, our folks are all well.

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Folks Quotations

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Rush Limbaugh

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
George W. Bush

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Josh Billings

For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home.
David Letterman

A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.
David Letterman

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
William Faulkner

Folks Translations

folks in German is Leute, Volk, Leute
folks in Italian is gente, volgo

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