Pun Quotations | Page 3

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system and try the education of the moral and intellectual faculties, cheerful surroundings, inspiring influences? Everything in our present system tends to lower the physical vitality, the self-respect, the moral tone, and to harden instead of reforming the criminal.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

Art talk is punk. Let the movie do your speaking for you.

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

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