Play on Words Quotes

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

Great minds sink alike, right?

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.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.

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

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

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.

One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.

Went to the corner shop - bought 4 corners.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

You know they call corn-on-the-cob, "corn-on-the-cob", but that's how it comes out of the ground. They should just call it corn, and every other type of corn, corn-off-the-cob. It's not like if someone cut off my arm they would call it "Mitch", but then re-attached it, and call it "Mitch-all-together".

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

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

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.