“If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head”
Samuel Johnson
“It's not very much, it's rather puny. They definitely need some more.”
Georg Petersen
“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.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.”
Charles Lamb
“Brothers do not do that to their family members, and he knew that the only thing Pun left behind was his kids. Even if Joe didn't like his wife, he could help out the kids -- he could have definitely done that,”
Cuban Link
“But they're not - no pun intended, given the fish on Friday - entirely off the hook. If you do choose to eat meat, you're asked to perform another sacrificial act, such as refraining from eating meat on another day, or doing some service to others, or making a donation to the poor.”
Joseph McAleer
“The shortest distance between two puns is a straight line.”
Anon Amuss
