Pun Quotes

• Puns are the highest form of literature.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Funny, Literature, Form

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Able, Said, Punning

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• You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

  Dorothy Parker

  Funny, Women, Thinking

  On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence, in John Keats You Might as well Live (1970) p. 46

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Ratios, Goodness, Punning

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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

  Fred Allen

  Sarcastic, Men, Should

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

  Jay Heinrichs

  Hate, People, May

  Jay Heinrichs (2011). “Word Hero: A Fiendishly Clever Guide to Crafting the Lines that Get Laughs, Go Viral, and Live Forever”, p.72, Three Rivers Press

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• A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

  Doug Larson

  Humor, Form, Punning

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Two, Tangled, Coincidence In Life

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• I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Mood, Poisoning

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

  Oscar Levant

  Thinking, Firsts, Form

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• 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

  Spring, Thinking, Self

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.2, Ballantine Books

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• 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.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Forever, Goes On, Shows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!

  Stephen Colbert

  Doe, Pasta, Communist

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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.

  Louis Untermeyer

  Spring, Vowels, Soil

  1965 Bygones.

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

  Beth Ditto

  Shameless, Beth

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Reckless, Abandoned, Stoops

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.1695, Delphi Classics

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• Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Talent, Despise

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

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Enemy, Ill

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Charles Edmund Brock, Winifred Green, Charles Robinson (1903). “The Works of Charles Lamb”

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• 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.

  Character, Blow, Aggravation

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.13

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• In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

  Greg Proops

  Beautiful, Our World, Comedy

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• 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

  Law, Ears, Pistols

  1833 Of puns. Last Essays of Elia,'Popular Fallacies', no.9.

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• Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.

  Jack Benny

  Ignorance, Names, Principles

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

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Cows

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• 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.

  Eoin Colfer

  Sound, Sense Of Humor, Ignored

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