“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.”
Louis Untermeyer
“Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring, / Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.”
Michael Drayton
“The shortest distance between two puns is a straight line.”
Anon Amuss
“Puns are the droppings of soaring wits”
Victor Hugo
“Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them”
Edgar Allan Poe
“Coincidences are spiritual puns.”
G. K. Chesterton
“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.”
Dave Barry
