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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. -- Victor Hugo
Puns are the highest form of literature. -- Alfred Hitchcock
Puns are a form of humor with words. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding. -- Sara Coleridge
I love making puns. -- Fred Gwynne
Coincidences are spiritual puns. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I live and die by puns. -- Feist
I think the humor of double puns is incredible. -- Richard Lederer
I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life. -- Scott Aukerman
I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns. -- Beth Ditto
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. -- Fred Allen
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. -- John Oliver
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. -- John Oliver
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. -- Allan Sloan
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them. -- John Lasseter
Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script - like, 'Trac is grizzly!' 'This is unbearable!' It's the greatest. -- Jason Segel
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. -- James Howe
The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh. -- David Chase
I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor. -- Karin Slaughter
Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation. -- Joshua Cohen
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I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while. -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Tom Stoppard
I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he's not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn't you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind? -- Alan Moore
My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things. -- Meg Wolitzer
My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial -- James Joyce
I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs. -- Mason Cooley
I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them. -- Mark Lowry
Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns -- Groucho Marx
I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man. -- Charles Lamb
In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy. -- Greg Proops
People, if you can't get through the puns, I can't give you the good stuff. -- Jon Stewart
People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them. -- Jay Heinrichs
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. -- Ambrose Bierce
They are "sexcellent". That is a pun for you, you will find lots of puns on the internet! Also: blonde jokes. -- Ryan North
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. -- Jon Stewart
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. -- Lynn Coady
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.... -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let's say that what's out there is a narrative. Often enough, the picture plays with the question of what actually is happening. Almost the way puns function. -- Garry Winogrand
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program. -- Adam Gopnik
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. -- Neil Gaiman
Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings. -- Milton H. Erickson
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. -- Marshall Ramsay

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