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«Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.»
«A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first»
«Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them»
«Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.»
«Puns are the droppings of soaring wits»
«It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.»
«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.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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Benjamin, Benjamin Franklin, breed, by far, cleverest, dead person, franklin, indicate, plays, punning, Puns, self-satisfied
«Coincidences are spiritual puns.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
coincidences, punning, Puns, spiritual, spiritual being
«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»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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cockle, cockles, conveyed, excites, harmonious, jingle, jingles, jingling, punning, Puns, raises, The Animal
«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.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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aggravate, aggravated, aggravates, aggravating, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, homicide, homicides, in return, jury, justifiable, justify, pun, punning, Puns, The Jury, The Verdict, verdict, verdicts
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