Pun Quotes · Page 2

“A pun is its own reword.”

— Valerie Estelle Frankel

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Dorothy Parker

People, if you can't get through the puns, I can't give you the good stuff.

— Jon Stewart

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

— Beth Ditto

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

— Mark Lowry

“I think; therefore, I am above average.”

— Michael Walton

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

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I have mood poisoning. Must be something I hate.

— Marilyn Manson

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

— Meg Cabot

“She challenged me for a game of Scrabble. I did not refuse. How could I? It was like she was telling me…

— Dhaval Rathod

“So one might say that music killed him, that he was felled by music. It's a theory. String theory.”

— Emma Richler

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

— Jonathan Swift

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun…

— Jeremy Piven

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

— DJ Spooky

LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Neal Stephenson

Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended.…

— Timothy B. Schmit

I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO…

— Terry Pratchett

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a…

— Karl Kraus

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking…

— Tom Stoppard

I can be really silly when I'm not actually writing silliness, and I have to rein that in. Pynchon, in my opinion,…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in…

— Gruff Rhys

I had imagined I would come back at some point. But yeah, that was for a very specific reason. I will be…

— Joss Whedon

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first…

— Bill Nye

We have to know cognitively what another mind is thinking and also empathically what they're feeling. And of course, in general, that's…

— Robert Mankoff

Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very…

— Jody Lynn Nye

“Three,' reckoned the captain, 'ourselves make seven, counting Hawkins, here. Now, about honest hands?' Most likely Trelawney's own men," said the doctor;…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for…

— Thomas Pynchon

I think at some point [Big Pun] really wanted to be a singer as well. He would call me at 3 or…

— Tony Sunshine

Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is…

— Jessica Helfand

“She only modelled for him once,' Max said stubbornly, leaning the canvases back against the wall and replacing the sheet. 'Once, twice…

— Robert Goddard

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Tim Vine

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

— Charles Lamb

“It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Puns are the highest form of literature.

— Alfred Hitchcock

If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that's not a pun about my size.

— Gabriel Iglesias