“It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”
Eleanor H. Porter book Pollyanna
Pollyanna
Works, Pollyanna (1913)
“It's funny how dogs and cats know the insides of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”
Eleanor H. Porter book Pollyanna
Pollyanna
Works, Pollyanna (1913)
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 23
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Herman Wouk (1915–2019) Pulitzer Prize-winning American author whose novels include The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War and War and …
This is My God: The Jewish Way of Life (1959)
“Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.”
Walter Kirn book Mission to America
Source: Mission to America
Flora Thompson (1876–1947) English author and poet
Source: Dashpers http://www.dashper.net.nz/dashpers.htm (unfinished, unpublished novel), Chapter One - The House
“When a cat flatters… he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.”
Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
Source: Imaginary Conversations
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 2, ch. 22
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: "I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off."
"You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them."
"Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."