Puns Quotes

Coincidences are spiritual puns.-Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest.-Jason Segel

 

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

 

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.-Allan Sloan

 

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

 

Puns are a form of humor with words.-Guillermo Cabrera Infante

 

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.-Victor Hugo

 

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.-John Lasseter

 

A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan. - Unknown

 

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. - Doug Larson

 

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

 

Puns are little "plays on words" that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water. - Dave Barry

 

A lurking pun is the worst pun, one the offender has been waiting to spring on you. - Harry Mahtar

 

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,

 

Punning and groaning are brothers. - B.F. Tucson

 

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. - Charles Lamb

 

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. - John Dennis

 

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. - Arthur Koestler

 

A good pun is its own reword. - Unknown

 

I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me. - Unknown

 

Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. - Grey Livingston

 
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