Feist Quotes

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

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

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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.

I'm probably doing puns more than anything in my life.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

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

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

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

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

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.

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.

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

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

I love making wisecracks.

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

Jokes are unanswerable objections.

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial