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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
~puns sayings by Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849
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 self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead, when in fact what you are thinking is that if this person ever ends up in a lifeboat, the other passengers will hurl him overboard by the end of the first day even if they have plenty of food and water.
~inspirational sayings about Puns quotes by Dave Barry, Why Humor Is Funny
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.
~puns quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
~famous quotes about Puns by John Dennis, 1781
A pun is a short quip followed by a long groan.
~puns sayings by Author Unknown
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
~puns sayings by Doug Larson
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
~inspirational sayings about Puns quotes by Fred Allen
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 tickle the intellect.
~puns quotes by Charles Lamb, Popular Fallacies: That the Worst Puns are the Best, Last Essays of Elia, 1833
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
~famous quotes about Puns by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.
~puns sayings by Arthur Koestler
A good pun is its own reword.
~puns sayings by Author Unknown
Let's have some new cliches.
~puns sayings by Samuel Goldwyn
During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
~good sayings about Baseball by Mickey Mantle, 1970
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
~puns quotes by Tuli Kupferberg
Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generatio
~motivational quotes about Memorial Day sayings by W.J. Cameron
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
~puns sayings by Henry James
There is an itch in runners.
~puns sayings by Arnold Hano
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
~good sayings about Teachers by Elbert Hubbard
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
~puns quotes by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
A nickel's worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.
~motivational quotes about Food sayings by Martin H. Fischer
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
~puns sayings by Albert Camus, The Rebel
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
~puns sayings by Golda Meir
No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.
~good sayings about Gardens by Hugh Johnson
A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.
~puns quotes by Will Rogers
As though pure white snow flashed and sparkled with the color of bright ruddy wine, and was overcome by this radiance.
~motivational quotes about Jewelry sayings by Author unknown, about the opal
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
~puns sayings by Author Unknown
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
~puns sayings by Maxim Gorky
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
~good sayings about Cats by Stephen Baker
No one ever went broke under-estimating the taste of the American public.
~puns quotes by Mark Twain
History is a bath of blood.
~motivational quotes about History sayings by William James, Memories and Studies
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
~puns sayings by Gene Mauch
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