1.   Like most folk wisdom it is true, I think.

2.   Like much political folk wisdom, this particular belief is of recent origin.

3.   Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of folk wisdom give a person reasons for obeying rules.

4.   Some of the new findings, though, support previously unsubstantiated folk wisdom about alcohol and caffeine.

5.   The folk wisdom led Tory politicians to dismiss opinion poll findings suggesting the opposite.

6.   According to a study by political scientists at Dartmouth College, the New Hampshire tradition of one-to-one contact between voters and presidential candidates is more folk wisdom than fact.

7.   After all, the folk wisdom about too much work slowing the cognitive processes applies not only to Jack, but to everyone.

8.   Celtics legend Red Auerbach is correctly regarded as the source of much folk wisdom . . . but not all of it.

9.   Contrary to folk wisdom, the framers did not reject popular election because of a fear that the people might fall prey to a demagogue.

10.   Folk wisdom has tended to link ant invasions with wet weather, but the study is the first to examine and test that suspicion.