Quotes by Artemus Ward

"For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like."
— Artemus Ward
"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so."
— Artemus Ward
"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
— Artemus Ward
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Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 – March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with "Yankee common sen...