Pun Quotes

95 Pun quotes by 79 unique authors

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
Coincidence is a spiritual pun. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss,-- This art of writing billet-doux-- In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all… — Leigh Hunt
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in… — Milton H. Erickson
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. — Ambrose Bierce
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the… — Charles Krauthammer
God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion. — Martin Gore
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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
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… — Charles Lamb
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them. — John Lasseter
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. — Edgar Allan Poe

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