Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.
Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.
A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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.