Quotes of Pun - somelinesforyou

“ An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. ”

- Evan Esar

“ For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ”

- James Boswell

“ A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. ”

- Fred Allen

“ A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ”

- John Dennis

“ People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. ”

- Doug Larson

“ He that would pun would pick a pocket. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ When one hears a pun, one feels as though one has been pushed over without one's consent. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me. ”

- Unknown

“ If you trip over a pun in your speaking it's not so bad but to intentionally jump on one is a true offense. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ A good pun is its own reword. ”

- Unknown

“ In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ A lurking pun is the worst pun, one the offender has been waiting to spring on you. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan. ”

- Unknown

“ The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ A joke is a very serious thing. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. ”

- Unknown

“ Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance. ”

- Louis Untermeyer

“ It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop. ”

- Bugs Baer

“ Coincidences are spiritual puns. ”

- G.K. Chesterton

“ A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. ”

- Robert Chapman
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