Quotes About Wordplay

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

He that would pun would pick a pocket.

Evil spelled backward is live.

U.N.? As in United Nations?" "No, U.N. as in Unidentified Numbskulls.

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

A dyslexic man walks into a bra.

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?

People tried and failed to combine the words Izzy and Ymir. The closest they came was Izmir, but that had been the name of a city in Turkey.

Number 2 son: I don't hear nothin. What do you hear? Inspector Wang: Double negative and dog.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

C'est au Moyen Âge, à la faveur d'un assez extraordinaire jeu de mots (malum signifiant à la fois le mal et la pomme en latin) que le fruit défendu du jardin d'Eden et croqué à belles dents par Adam et Eve, fut assimilé à une pomme.

A pun is its own reword.

Our subconscious works in metaphors, stories, and word play. That's why a particular story or movie may mean more to some people than to others. Have you considered why you quest for this tale now?

A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you from having to give a straight answer." "Perhaps so," said the Queen with an amused smile. "'Mayhap' is a good word too," Alec suggested. "Also 'perchance,'" Izzy said. "I see nothing wrong with 'maybe'," said Simon. "A little modern, but the gist of the idea comes across.

I remember stating that humour was the poor cousin of wit and at best it was the whetstone on which wit sharpened itself – that one laughs at humour but savours wit.

el «prefijo fantástico» no es más que un caso particular del «binomio fantástico», en que los dos componentes son el prefijo escogido para originar nuevas palabras y la palabra primitiva escogida para ser promocionada gracias a la deformación.

What did the hat say to the hatrack? You stay here and I'll go on a head.

I'm undefeated in Scrabble. I can figure out an opponent's strategy and mold mine to offset theirs. I play a couple times a week, and I'll often play a game on my bed by myself against myself, which I realize sounds completely mad.

There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

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

Let's just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'

Why is it that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head?