“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

“What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

“It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble, it's the things we do know that just ain't so.”

“There ain't no leaves to turn to gold—
There ain't a tree in sight—
In other ways the herder's told
October's come, all right.”

“My troubles are many
They're deep as a well
I swear there ain't no Heaven
And I pray there ain't no hell
But I'll never know by living
only my dying will tell.
And when I die
and when I'm gone
There'll be, one child born
And a world to carry on, to carry on.”

“Yeah 'n' I'm doin' all right in school.
They ain't said I broke no rule.
I ain't never been in Dutch.
I don't browse around too muchDon't bother me leave me alone
Anyway I'm almost grown”

“H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

“How you gonna win when you ain't right within?”

“I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.”

“It ain't only the colored folks has the blues; there's many a white man that's had 'em.”