Quotes for All
I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I’m dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she’s of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there’s so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship. … Read more
If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that’s not a pun about my size. Gabriel Iglesias
We hackers are a playful bunch; we’ll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they’re bosses. There’s a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate … Read more
Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored. Eoin Colfer
The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. Edgar Allan Poe
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Edgar Allan Poe
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. Fred Allen
The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name. Frank E. Gaebelein
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself. Doug Larson
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think. Dorothy Parker