Quotes About Pun

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.

Why didn't the skeleton cross the road? Because he had no guts. A good steak pun is a rare medium well done. A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey." The horse says, "Sure.

I love you from my head tomatoes!

Q: What's a cat's favorite vegetable? A: As-purr-agus!

A guy comes into the library with an overdue book. The librarian says, 'This book about amnesia was due four weeks ago!' The guy says, 'Really? I forgot.

I thought of a bad pun: "I'm going from bad to Hearst.

I still prefer 'pre-Cleavage' but it makes an unfortunate pun in English

I hate the phrase 'No pun intended.' It's pointless.

What did the carrot say to the wheat? Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.

Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.

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.

Once we acquired the power to destroy ourselves, the very notion of human life had been altered; even the air we breathed was contaminated with the stench of death. Sachs was hardly the first person to come up with this idea, but considering what happened to him nine days ago, there's a certain eeriness to the obsession, as if it were a kind of deadly pun, a mixed-up word that took root inside him and proliferated beyond his control.