Quotes About Wordplay

I think we can all agree that this deaf elf sure plays a mean pinball.

Thy quips and thy quiddities.

There's a skirmish of wit between them.

Blake, I know you don't live on Butt St, Uranus.

699. What did the census supervisor say to the employee who went on an unauthorized vacation? "Have you taken leave of your census?" 700. What would you call scalp exercises to prevent baldness? Hairobics!

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

Made-up word ALERT

He stared at the gadget in his hand and said, "So it's a magnet for cats? Hey! It's a pussy mag—

A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion.

There is no egg in egg plant, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? If teachers taught, why haven't preachers praught? We have noses that run and feet that smell. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

A popular Internet essay notes: "There is no egg in egg plant, neither apple nor pine in pineapple. A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese? If teachers taught, why haven't preachers praught? We have noses that run and feet that smell. How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Well, technically, we'd be re-stealing them," he said dryly. "It's kind of like a double negative.

Scrabble has always been immensely popular, so it's easy to see why online Scrabble is just as lauded.

I give you everything you want as an artist, for so long. Consistency. Wordplay. Wittiness. You can check the checklist. Only thing I don't check off on is album sales.

A semicomma, we should note, doesn't exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn't it?

Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.

A paradox may be paradoctored.

I used to know a woman named Anita Hurl," Lizbeth said. "Get it? I need to hurl?

Than is both a conjunction and a preposition; it's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

I have a prescription here for Obecalp for [patient's name], but I can't find it listed anywhere." He said, "Oh. That's placebo spelled backwards.

Skeleton adventures are different. There's more room for puns.

he answer to your first riddle," I told him. "If yes is no and once is never, then the number of sides a triangle has… is… two." I drew out my reply, not bothering to explain how I'd arrived at my answer

Er... WARP: Witness Anonymous Relocation Programme.' 'That sounds like they threw in Anonymous to fit the name WARP. Otherwise they'd have WRP and what kind of acronym would that be?