Quotes About Wordplay

I liked Big L's wordplay with the multi-syllable rhymes he hit so clean.

Nincompoop is such a brilliantly satisfying word.

My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.

Q: What did the tree say to the Pilgrim's ax? A: You got me stumped. Q: How many days would it take two Pilgrims to dig half a hole? A: None. No one can dig half a hole! Q: When things went wrong, what could the Pilgrims always count on? A: Their fingers!

Let us always remember Abraham Lincoln's undeservedly neglected riddle: How many legs has a dog got if you call a tail a leg? The answer, said Lincoln, and he was right, is four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

When you're undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable.

Everything is organic. I got the wordplay, I got the vocabulary to really, really rap.

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

How's it feel to be a worthless jumbo diddly-ass puppetool?

I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once. Huh? It said, 'Oeuf.' What is that? It's a joke. Do you want to hear another, or have you already had un oeuf?

You are a schmuck," I informed the hero. "You're not using the word correctly," he said. "Yes I am," I said.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Trojan is giving away Magnum large condoms (do you think they were named after a large wooden animal inside which thousands of little men were hiding, ready to jump out and ruin your life?)

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.

What do you call a rifle with three barrels? A trifle.

James Joyce, in his novel Finnegans Wake, in 1939, punned on the word "Hindoo" (as the British used to spell it), joking that it came from the names of two Irishmen, Hin-nessy and Doo-ley: "This is the hindoo Shimar Shin between the dooley boy and the hinnessy."30 Even Joyce knew that the word was not native to India.

What does an educated owl say?" He shrugged. "Whom," she said.

It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make...fish

You have a gift for making a compliment sound like an insult.

Rose took my nose, I suppose. And it really blows...Get it? It really blows. My nose. Taken by Rose. I suppose.

When's a door not a door? she'd said in her thick accent. When? he'd asked When it's ajar.

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.