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542599 No.542599 [Reply] [Original]

Can we have a witty Literature quote or pun thread?

>> No.542644

/lit/ isn't very funny =[

>> No.542648
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542648

Do these eggs look a little runny?

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542672

To firm them up, use this honey.

>> No.542693

>>542648
>>542672

ha?

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542702

I like to rub this fluffy bunny.

>> No.542703

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky


amidoinitrite

>> No.542722

>>542702
>>542672
>>542648
>>542644

This thread isn't very punny... neither.

>> No.542728

Puns are for sixth graders you mother fucker

>> No.542737

>>542728
HEY.

TAKE THAT BACK.

>> No.542756
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542756

"The mad dogs have kneed us in the groin again."

>> No.542761

“There is a knocking without,” he said.
“Without what?” said the fool.
“Without the door, idiot.”
The Fool gave him a worried look. “A knocking without a door?” he said suspiciously. “This isn't some kind of Zen, is it?”

>> No.542768

Puns are the highest form of wit.

After sarcasm.

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542772

>>542768

>> No.542782

>>542768
Buns are the lowest form of wheat.

>> No.542790

>>542768
10/10 you got me
Sarcasm is easily the among lowest forms of wit.

>> No.542791

>>542772

Its because puns require both the teller and those listening to have sufficiently vast vocabularies to comprehend the pun.

>> No.542798

>>542790
He was being sarcastic about puns being the highest from of wit.

That was the joke.

>> No.542795

You can take a horticulture, but you can't make her think. - Dorothy Parker

>> No.542806

One of the best verbal/visual puns ever, from the movie The Little Rascals:
"Come see the 4 foot tall man-eating chicken!"
Cut to the interior of a tent, where a toddler is eating a bucket of fried chicken.

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>>542728

JOYCE SMAAAAAAAAAAAASH

>> No.543510

"My name is Dr. Kashmir," said Dr. Kashmir. "What's yours?"

>> No.543538

read the Devil's Dictionary its composed of witty literary quotes. Ambrose Bierce I think.

>> No.543544

satirical lexicon is mildly amusing

>> No.543547

>>543538
>Dawn: the time at which men of reason go to bed.

I love this quote.

>> No.543560

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. - G.K. Chesterton

>> No.543621

>>543538
>witty literary quotes

which also tend to be fake. It's a very good read, though.

>> No.543622

>>543510
"I'm Behemoth" Said Behemoth.

>> No.543637

>>543621
>which also tend to be fake.
point?

>> No.544041

>>543637

Only that Bierce invented the quotations along with the definitions.

>> No.544072

/lit/ is not funny, nor is it smart enough to see humor in genuinely funny things