Quotes About Wordplay

you say carjacking, i say borrowing.

For example, the word 'daffy-down-dilly.' It is a criminal libel to call a lawyer a daffy-down-dilly. Ha! Yes, I advise you never to do such a thing.

Tief im Regenwald tat es das, was es im Regenwald normalerweise tut, nämlich regnen: daher der Name.

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

Frog backward is GO RF.

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

Sadly, in the most nerdy way possible, my superpower is anagramming.

Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge.

One moment, please. Whom did you wish to see?" Degarmo spun on his heel and looked at me wonderingly. "Did he say 'whom'?" "Yeah, but don't hit him," I said. "There is such a word." Degarmo licked his lips. "I knew there was," he said. "I often wondered where they kept it.

Le duc finit son verre, puis énonça cette remarque : — Ce qui me plaît dans l'essence de fenouil, c'est qu'il n'y a aucun autre mot qui rime avec. Avec fenouil. — À moins qu'on ne change de genre, dit Lalix.

You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.

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

I am a man of my word… and that word is "unreliable.

Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Hey big mouth, how do you spell triple?

Spermicide' sort of rhymes with 'pesticide', yet you wouldn't put a load of DDT in you know where to kill you know what, now would you?

Morris had been raised a Mennonite stoic in a tribe that wasn't a tribe at all, but more a failed cult whose main sources of entertainment were music, wordplay, and suffering.

Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead.

You can't spell Citrus without UT

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus or just a really cool opotamus?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?