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A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
~sayings puns quotes by John Dennis, 1781
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.
~inspirational sayings about Puns quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
~puns quotes by Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
~famous quotes about Puns by Doug Larson
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 sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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.
~sayings puns quotes by Charles Lamb, Popular Fallacies: That the Worst Puns are the Best, Last Essays of Elia, 1833
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 is a short quip followed by a long groan.
~puns quotes by Author Unknown
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
~famous quotes about Puns by Fred Allen
A good pun is its own reword.
~puns sayings by Author Unknown
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.
~sayings puns quotes by Arthur Koestler
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre
~sayings puns quotes by Gail Godwin
There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values
~good sayings about Graduation by Author Unknown
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
~puns quotes by Louis D. Brandeis
Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.
~motivational quotes about Miscellaneous sayings by George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, 1896
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.
~puns sayings by Charles Wagner
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.
~sayings puns quotes by Bill Vaughan
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars. That's subtraction.
~good sayings about Math by Mae West
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.
~puns quotes by V.V. Rozanov
Guard against getting into habit of mere reading. Promote your self to more doing.
~motivational quotes about Self Discipline sayings by
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
~puns sayings by Annie Dillard
Love is always present, it is just a matter of feeling it or not
~sayings puns quotes by Kimberly Kirberg
Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate!
~good sayings about Love by Author Unknown
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea
~puns quotes by Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
~motivational quotes about Gratitude sayings by Jackie Windspear
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
~puns sayings by Victor Hugo
If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.
~sayings puns quotes by Alan Loy Mcginnis
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
~good sayings about Teenagers by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
~puns quotes by Mark Twain
Do not take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that the virtue is not given by money, but that from vitue come money and every other good of man, public as well as private... The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death
~motivational quotes about Death sayings by Socrates
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
~puns sayings by Al Boliska
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