Top 30 Puns Quotes

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he’s funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I know that that offends other philosophers; they think he’s not taking things seriously, but he comes up with some marvellous puns. Why shouldn’t you have a bit of fun while dealing with the deepest issues of the mind?

Metaphors, similes, puns – all manner of metonymy – I’m interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine – language that can only be understood through acculturation.

The moment I accept that there’s an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I’ll get hooked.

‘The Sopranos’ is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes – infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I’ll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was ‘carrion,’ before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

I’m probably doing puns more than anything in my life.

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

I say ‘as it were’ or ‘so to speak’ too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I’m talking.

Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script – like, ‘Trac is grizzly!’ ‘This is unbearable!’ It’s the greatest.

I like really bad puns – proper, red-top, nasty puns – I find them funny.

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.

I love puns. I’ve been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word… but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.

Americans don’t like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and Germany.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

I love making puns.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I grew up on EC comic books and ‘Tales From the Crypt,’ which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about – whether it’s consumerism or the Bush administration or war.

I’d like my super power to be puns; I’d like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I live and die by puns.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

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

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.

I’m the champ that puns the camp! That’s what I always wanted. I wanted to be seen as a main eventer, and it’s a lot of responsibility now. I feel like I’m gonna deliver on this opportunity. I want to take it and make sure everybody knows that this is why I’m the champ.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

In Hebrew, the name Susan means ‘graceful lily’ – in Khmer, it means ‘girl with the bad puns,’ and in ancient Aztec, it translates as ‘she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.’

I love puns and plays on words, which is why I love RuPaul so much.