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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.
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.
My parents, worried that I might become popular at school, got me a book of puns at an impressionable age.
I'll pun him so many puns that even his arrogance will finally be expunged.
It's a pun!' the King added in an offended tone, and everybody laughed, 'Let the jury consider their verdict,' the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.
You make me ride a horse, you get unbridled puns." "That's clever, I approve." "Thank you." Ty said
All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable ...
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.
How do jokes work? The beginning of each good one challenges you to think.
The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.
I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns are present in every language, though not shared by any of them.
You're a bright girl, aren't you? No pun intended.
I know the pundits, they get big bucks for ... pundating.
Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!
What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.
It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.
The wind likes making jokes!
Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.
jokes about arks. The
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A grave matter has just arisen." Etta hadn't intended to make the pun. She went on. "It's a problem right up your alley.
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
Oh, Frances, for somebody so clever you can be awfully dull sometimes. Don't you know the sort of mistake I mean? I was going to have a
I want to roll my eyes, but I'm pretty soon they're going to get stuck in the back of my head, and penis puns are really not worth my permanent facial damage.
I love my jokes.
The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
Here's the way I look at it. President Bush has uranium-tipped bunker busters and I have puns. I think he'll be OK.
This reliance on puns gives Freud an interpretative freedom which might often be considered licence.
Alice, it took big, dumb Talon Dodo thirty seconds to get you so pissed about a poker hand pun that you were about to beat him to death with your cane.
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally cured and then found out that you had just become a different kind of fool.
Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns
The Admiral Fell Inn? It's the only hotel nearby that's a pun; of course you headed there.
I'm not much of a jokester.
Within a few years these "jokes" as we comedians call them, will have been entirely purged from my work in favour, exclusively, of grinding repetition, embarrassing silence and passive-aggressive monotony.
I couldn't help it: Brendan was abs-olutely pec-tacular, horrible puns intended and very accurate.
I tried to think of puns that might make my father laugh one more time, and I looked at the stars.
Oh, you made an impression. Like a stone caught in my boot.
I'm really bad at writing jokes.
I'm not much of a joke writer.
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.
I'm not just a pundit - I'm a comedian.
Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.
Writing's in the nouns.
I prefer sayings over jokes.
You set, Bones?"
"Ouch," McCoy said. "I assume that pun was meant to make me feel better, or else accidental.
I don't do jokes. The characters are my jokes.
thought a little, and suddenly laughed a
Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.
Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
I am never serious, and therefore I have to make jokes do duty both for jest and earnest.
A wicked sense of humor, this one.
I do love jokes.
I mistook you for a metaphor.
This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!
Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.
You don't make stupid jokes in art.
The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
Oh, the cleverness of me!
I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations.
i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.
I've never been one to resist a single entendre.
A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.
I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
Jokes are the declarations of fools.
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
I understand your new play is full of single entendres.
We are racing down Main Street. Arthur is right on the tail of a blck sedan with tinted windows that won't pull over. He slams the horn.
"Arthur," I say.
The car doesn't yield.
"Arthur," I say.
He hits the horn again, still close on the car's bummper.
"Arthur, our turn was back there.
Cheap jokes and dirty minds." Patrick
I'm really good at writing 'almost hits'.
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.
I make jokes. That's what I do.
Buggeration and Fuckery
Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.
Jokes rot. They're not like songs. I always envy singers - Sting is always going to sing 'Roxanne'. But people want to hear new jokes. I've written jokes as good as 'Roxanne', I believe. But I can't tell them again.
I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.
My poetic aspiration
Is to become,
A Jack of all styles
And a master of pun.
Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.
Mind your P's and Q's.
Have a good nap, did you?" said the porter. "Yes," said Billy. "Man," said the porter, "you sure had a hard-on.
I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman ... come in the guise of a comic ... to heal perception by using ... 'jokes' ...
You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left.
Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!
Every joke can't be dazzling. And if you think you spotted an inconsistency, you did!
Grandmama's idea of a joke.
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
Let's hit the joke once and move on to the next joke and just keep it where we have as many jokes per square inch as possible.
You're a formidable riddler and I'll not match words with ye
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.
Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."
My medication must be wearing off I'm starting to think my jokes are funny.
I was in my element, excuse the pun.
cheeky comments couldn't hide.
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 shows and live off that forever.
I thought you had outgrown such pranks.
I've always admired your ability to make jokes when faced with adversity.
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
Most jokes come from good intentions - and most mistakes, too.