Pun Quotes

95 quotes by 79 authors

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes. — Rachel Griffiths
Graphic design is a visual language uniting harmony and balance, color and light, scale and tension, form and content. But it is also an idiomatic… — Jessica Helfand
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… — Frank E. Gaebelein
Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be! — Oscar Wilde
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with… — T. E. D. Klein
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm… — Arthur Koestler
Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire — Ambrose Bierce
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver
In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended. — Verne Troyer
Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns — Groucho Marx
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial — James Joyce
If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac. — Tim Vine
For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. — Tim Vine
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… — Dave Barry
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. — Arthur Koestler
The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh. — David Chase
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… — Chris O'Dowd
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous. — Jeremy Piven
One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always count on a solid story, a punchline and… — St. Vincent
I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns. — Beth Ditto

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