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45</p><h1 style="text-align: center">Words of Wisdom: Quotes</h1>
46<p><!-- Start of Art Prints For Kidz Ad --><table width="275" ; cellpadding="5" ; align="right"><tr><td><center><a href="http://www.artprintsforkidz.com"><img src=" http://www.sqwahr.com/images/ads/APFKz%20ad%20001.jpg" WIDTH="250" HEIGHT="230" alt="ArtPrintsForKidz.com"></td></tr></table><!-- End of Art Prints For Kidz Ad --></p><p>A humorist (Henry Wheeler Shaw a.k.a. Josh Billings) wrote these words of wisdom: “There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”</p><p>That is the logic and attraction of quotes: keep it short and simple to make the point.</p><p>Old fashioned American humor is brimming with quotes and sayings. Some are great. Some are ho-hum. We poured piles of them into our sifter, and shook it to produce a fine sampling of humorous quotes for you.</p><p>How can humor be defined? Maybe humor is what is funny. What is funny? You’ll know it when you see it, or as James Whitcomb Riley wrote, “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.”</p><p><small>So duck, or this stuff will quack you up.</small></p><p>Couldn’t resist a small joke.</p><p>It’s great to be American. Always has been. Enjoy!</p><p><ul><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/humorous-words-of-wisdom-by-subject.html">Complete List of Quotes, by Subject</a></li></ul></p><p>Quotes by author:</p><p><ul><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/humorous-quotes-for-teachers-ambrose-bierce.html">Ambrose Bierce (45 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/quotes-by-ben-franklin.html">Ben Franklin (84 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/humorous-quotes-for-life-situations-charles-dudley-warner.html">Charles Dudley Warner (17 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/sarcastic-funny-quotes-charles-farrar-browne.html">Charles Farrar Browne (6 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/words-of-humorous-wisdom-douglas-william-jerrold.html">Douglas William Jerrold (6 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/silly-witty-sayings-finley-peter-dunne.html">Finley Peter Dunne (16 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/quotes-about-life-george-ade.html">George Ade (5 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/wise-and-clever-sayings-george-william-curtis.html">George William Curtis (8 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/humorous-moral-stories-james-russell-lowell.html">James Russell Lowell (6 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/witty-funny-sayings-josh-billings.html">Josh Billings (25 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/short-humorous-sayings-irvin-s-cobb.html">Irvin S. Cobb (4 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/hilarious-quotes-nathaniel-hawthorne.html">Nathaniel Hawthorne (3 Quotes)</a></li></p><p><li><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/famous-quotes-one-sie-and-two-sie.html">One-sies & Two-sies (7 Quotes)</a></li></ul></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.oldfashionedamericanhumor.com/"><p>Return to <b>Old Fashioned American Humor</b> from <b>Words of Wisdom</b></a></p><p><!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->

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