Pun Quotes

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Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse?a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns

There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.

I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

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.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

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

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

I met Big Pun when I was a young boy. I think that he really gravitated to my innocence.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

I don't mind if smiles come at my expense, I'm a small price to pay.

[Big Pun] loved the fact that I could sing, everybody around us were rappers. A lot of people didn't know that Pun really, really loved r&b music.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

Also not the kind of place to hide a server." "Is that another pun?" She asked. "No! I swear! I didn't mean that one." ~Shell Game, Kingdom Keepers #5

They are "sexcellent". That is a pun for you, you will find lots of puns on the internet! Also: blonde jokes.

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.

Obviously I struck gold with Deadwood. No pun intended.

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

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

I'll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I've experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality.' Pardon the pun.

The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.

The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.