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Quotes About Wordplay

Shenanigans even starts with the word 'She'.
~ Anuj Somany
Moldy dildo sleeping/Adam's new nickname is moldy dildo -Artemis
~ Artemis
It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.
~ Arthur Baer
Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
~ Kate Christensen
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
~ Leslie Nielsen
Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
~ Victor Hugo
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
~ Umberto Eco
This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
~ Henny Youngman
I don't know if English is the only language where some expressions only and solely mean the opposite of what they say but we do have an awful lot of them.
~ A. A. Gill
Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns
~ Groucho Marx
I don't mean to be gross, but the only time it's good to yell "I have diarrhea" is when you're playing Scrabble because it's worth a shitload of points.
~ Zach Galifianakis
What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once? A centipede with a clubfoot.
~ Anne Frank
What are you? (Zarek) I'm a nymph. (Astrid) I hope you just left an important syllable off that word, princess. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He had never been able to name things himself-he was, after all, in chief a sort of archivist-but as with many archivists, a good irony and a pun delighted him.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Punning and groaning are brothers.
~ Astrid Alauda
Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.
~ Author Unknown
When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
~ K. Flay
For modern humans, word associating has become 'obsessional'.
~ Gary Snyder
Would a fly without wings be called a walk?
~ George Carlin
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
~ George Carlin
Is there another word for synonym?
~ George Carlin
Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!
~ George Carlin
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
~ Calvin Trillin
I've always thought the word cow was funny. And cows are sort of tragic figures. Cows blur the line between tragedy and humor.
~ Gary Larson