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Tag Name "Pun" (65)

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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
Alfred Hitchcock
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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
Ambrose Bierce
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Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
Jonathan Swift
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Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.
Teju Cole
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For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.
Tim Vine
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But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.
Meg Cabot
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The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.
Neal Stephenson
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If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that's not a pun about my size.
Gabriel Iglesias
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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.
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
Garry Winogrand
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In person, if possible, Anubis was even more drop-dead gorgeous. [Oh . . . ha, ha. I didn't catch the pun, but thank you, Carter. God of the dead, drop-dead gorgeous. Yes, hilarious. Now, may I continue?]
Rick Riordan
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Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns
Groucho Marx
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They are sexcellent. That is a pun for you, you will find lots of puns on the internet! Also: blonde jokes.
Ryan North
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We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.
Harriet Hosmer
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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 a pun. I think it has that in common with hip hop, where they're not afraid of wordplay and I really appreciate that.
St. Vincent
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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
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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 gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.
T. E. D. Klein
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People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.
Jay Heinrichs
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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
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Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
Adam Gopnik
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There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.
John Barrowman
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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Allan Sloan
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