Top 20 Quotes About Punning
#1. Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#2. And therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,
Benjamin Franklin
#3. Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.
Kristin Cashore
#4. Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
Jonathan Swift
#5. Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.
Mason Cooley
#6. To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
Paul Ryan
#7. VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.
Alan Moore
#8. Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#9. As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.
Bob Gunton
#10. The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Socrates
#11. You're perfect," I tell him, so overcome I forget myself. "All of you. Your entire body.
Proportionally. Symmetrically. You're absurdly, mathematically perfect. It doesn't even make sense
that a person could look like you,
Tahereh Mafi
#12. A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.
Helen Cresswell
#13. A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.
Mark Twain
#14. Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.
Jonathan Swift
#15. There are people in this life for whom even the best of things don't work out. They could wear cashmere suits and still look like tramps; be very rich but badly in debt; be tall but lousy at basketball.
Martin Page
#16. There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.
Joseph Addison
#17. My mind was not driving the car. If you doubt me, try being a twelve-year-old boy with your biggest sexual fantasy punning you against a wall mostly naked in a pool, and then tell me I'm lying
Eli Easton
#18. The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
Edgar Allan Poe
#19. English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
Richard Lederer
#20. Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
T.E. Lawrence
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