Dumb folks get no land. [ Proverb ]
Dead folks cannot bite. [ Proverb ]
Fools are not mad folks. [ Shakespeare ]
Threatened folks live long. [ Proverb ]
Poor folks are soon pissed on. [ Proverb ]
Poor folks are glad of porridge. [ Proverb ]
Perhaps
hinders folks from lying. [ Proverb ]
Chare-folks are never paid enough. [ Proverb ]
A strong nor'wester's blowing. Bill!
Hark! don't yet hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pities them
Unhappy folks on shore now! [ William Pitt ]
To fine folks a little ill finely wrapt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it. [ Prior ]
Poor folks must say thank ye for a little. [ Proverb ]
Little folks like to talk about great folks. [ Proverb ]
From great folks great favours are to be expected. [ Cervantes ]
As much wit as three folks, two fools and a madman. [ Proverb ]
The house is a fine house when good folks are within. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry? [ Proverb ]
You may know by the market-folks, how the market goes. [ Proverb ]
Bigotry murders religion to frighten folks with her ghost. [ Colton ]
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. [ George Eliot ]
It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. [ George Eliot ]
Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them. [ Goldsmith ]
Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place, credit decayed, and people that have of nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. [ Sheridan ]
Some folks say it was a miracle. Saint Francis suddenly appeared and knocked the next pitch clean over the fence. But I think it was just a lucky swing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. [ Beecher ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]