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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»
«A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion»
«A pun is the lowest form of humor - unless you thought of it yourself»
Author: Doug Larson | Keywords: pun, Puns
«It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.»
«The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability»
«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.»
«If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: pun, punished, Puns, puny