Quote by John Dennis

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

— Lewis Carroll

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

— Charles Lamb

A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man…

— Samuel Butler

“If one sides with pickpockets by saying, ‘what’s wrong with what he is doing? He doesn’t have any food so of course he’ll pick…

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Karl Kraus

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

— Baba Hari Dass

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly…

— Samuel Butler

Puns are a form of humor with words.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

— Mary Hunter Austin

“It is the observer of the pun that makes it, my dear Brumm. Of course, when the word is distorted, as in Evilution, the…

— John Davidson

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

— Neal Stephenson

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

— Edgar Allan Poe