Quotes on Punning

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

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.