Quotes About Pun

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.

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.

I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

Also not the kind of place to hide a server.""Is that another pun?" She asked."No! I swear! I didn't mean that one."~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

And S. I. Hayakawa, multiplex stringman. I'd tell you not to fret but that would spoil your playing." Freddie cackled merrily at his pun, then pointed his plastic weapon at the gross musician who joined feebly in the

Imagine the martyrdom of a pun which has become an integral portion of one's organism to be lugged through life like the convict's ball and chain. Do you suppose he vainly tries to escape it, or is he passive in its clutches or can it be possible that some memory of the joy still survives which irradiated his being, the first time he heard it from his lips in the springtime of his practice?

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

Don't talk dirty. Did you say 'thoat'?" "Yes. This is Barsoom." "I thoat that was what you said." "If that's a pun, you can eat it for supper. With peanut butter.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.

The difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.

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

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

My story's been an open book for a long time, no pun intended.

We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

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

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

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.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Knock, knock. Who's there? You're diamond. You're diamond who? You're diamond me crazy!

Get your butt over there and start reading before I beat you with my Rod of Time. (Sin) I can think of much better things to do with your rod than beat me, baby. (Kat) Aww, gawd, we've degenerated into really bad punage. I yield. Save me before my IQ points are damaged. (Sin)

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