The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.
– Josh Billings
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- The trouble with most folks isn’t so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain’t so. – Josh Billings
- I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me. – Josh Billings
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. – Josh Billings
- Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one. – Josh Billings
- Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves. – Josh Billings
- Science is the literature of truth. – Josh Billings
- To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. – Josh Billings
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. – Josh Billings
- Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there. – Josh Billings
- There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together. – Josh Billings