Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. – Grey Livingston Category: Puns
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. – Arthur Koestler Category: Puns
I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Comte de Mirabeau Category: Leisure
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. – John Updike, Self-Consciousness, 1989 Category: Religion
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. – Edna Ferber Category: Death
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art. – Anne Stevenson Category: Science