Quote by Fred Allen
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn a

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. – Fred Allen

Other quotes by Fred Allen

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. – Fred Allen

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Humorous
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The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion. – Fred Allen

Category:
funny
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. – Fred Allen

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Age
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Puns
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Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it. – Grey Livingston

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Puns

A lurking pun is the worst pun, one the offender has been waiting to spring on you. – Harry Mahtar

Category:
Puns

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, Sr. (1809–1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tabl

Category:
Puns

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. – Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia, 1849

Category:
Puns

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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist. – John McGahern

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Romantic

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread. – Norman Ralph Augustine

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Fear

Just before dawn I have the world all to myself. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Morning

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. – Imre Lakatos

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positive