Famous puns quotations

   People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.  Nice Word by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

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

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.  Good Quote by Arthur Koestler

   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.  Wise Phrase by Charles Lamb, Popular Fallacies: That the Worst Puns are the Best, Last Essays of Elia, 1833

   A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan.  Wise Phrase by Author Unknown

   The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.  Famous Saying by Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849

   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.  Nice Word by Dave Barry, Why Humor Is Funny

   A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.  Meaningful Quotation by John Dennis, 1781

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

   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.  Wise Phrase by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858

   A good pun is its own reword.  Wise Phrase by Author Unknown



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