
“And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.”
Source: Benny and Babe
A Tramp Abroad (1880)
Context: You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.
“And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.”
Source: Benny and Babe
“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”
Source: Bridge to Terabithia
“It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.”
“The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.”
How to Write (1931), Ch. 4: A Grammarian [Dover, 1975, ISBN 0-486-23144-5] p. 109
Parochial and Plain Sermons, London, 1868; quoted in Matthew Scully, [//books.google.it/books?id=SYY7AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT30 Dominion] (2002).
“I don't think we are ever prepared for the level of warfare at which ignorance fights.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 73