Will Carleton Quote

There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold them;
Who don't know much excepting what's told them.


Carleton (1885) City Ballads, p. 143. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.


There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.