Browsing Topic Best Pun Quotes

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don’t think of it first.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.

I never read Freud. I’ve never been attracted to anything he has said, and I think he’s started a lot of nonsense with psychiatry and that business. I don’t think psychiatry can help or has helped anybody. I think it’s a big fraud (pun not intended) on the public.

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

There’s something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary to what many people seem to think, taking it at face value – sorry for the pun – we do not give the same amount of emotional significance to every event.

I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

I often reflect on what an extraordinary time (pun intended) it is to be alive here in the beginning of the twenty-first century. It took life billions of years to get to this point. It took humans thousands of years to piece together a meaningful understanding of our cosmos, our planet and ourselves. Think how fortunate we are to know this much. But think also of all that’s yet to be discovered. Here’s hoping the deep answers to the deep questions-from the nature of consciousness to the origin of life-will be found in not too much more time.

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

For liberals, the observation that ‘the peasants are revolting’ is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.

I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.

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.

You’re just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, ‘toying with his sexuality.’ Pardon the pun.

The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself – no pun intended – every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.

I’ll take Shadowhunter, then. Because from what I’ve experienced of vampires, you mostly suck. No pun intended.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

We hackers are a playful bunch; we’ll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they’re bosses. There’s a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger – especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

What I’m going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.

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

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.

If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that’s not a pun about my size.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I’m dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she’s of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there’s so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.

Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I’ll grow out of it. Maybe it’s just a phase.

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane – it tells of something beyond….a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns

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.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.