Quotes About Pun

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

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

Does Strawberry Shortcake know you stole her horse? She will be berry, berry angry with you." I

Patron is a writer in Hebrew; wanted to create a pun between the word for Zion and the word for penis. We couldn't find a term for penis, but the word copulate is mtsayen which helped her make her pun with tsion.

If you say, 'May the Fork be with you,' I'll smash you with the other half of this hanger.

Indeed, the pun is considered by many to be more distasteful than the common expletive. You might even say the pun is mightier than the s-word.

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

He that would pun would pick a pocket.

I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

Los vampiros," she whispered. "Oh God, not the bloody vampires again," said Magnus. "No pun intended.

From what I experienced from vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

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

No offense, Sandecker said equably. I have a sinking feeling, if you'll pardon the pun, that my lack of faith is going to cost me a case of Robert Mondavi Chardonnay 1984. 1981, Silverstein said, grinning. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a schmuck with good taste. Think how common the world would be without us.

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

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

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

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. It is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but comes bounding into the presence, and does not show the less comic for being dragged in sometimes by the head and shoulders. What though it limp a little, or prove defective in one leg? — all the better.

...no circumstances, however dismal, will ever be considered a sufficient excuse for the admission of that last and saddest evidence of intellectual poverty, the Pun.

The man who never has been known to pun Will groan to point out he's a judge of one.

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.

Its benefits to the poet are evident: the rhyme is merely a glorified pun, two strings of ideas bisociated in an acoustic knot.

So his ego was the size of Uranus—and, no, the pun is not unintentional.