Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.