A pun is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
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Popular Fallacies: IX, That the Worst Puns Are the Best.Charles Lamb
The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy in 1947, I was told that I ought not to use my pistol in their training program because it was not fair. Maybe the first thing one should demand of his sidearm is that it be unfair.
Jeff Cooper
There are then two kinds of intellect: the one able to penetrate acutely and deeply into the conclusions of given premises, and this is the precise intellect; the other able to comprehend a great number of premises without confusing them, and this is the mathematical intellect. The one has force and exactness, the other comprehension. Now the one quality can exist without the other; the intellect can be strong and narrow, and can also be comprehensive and weak. 2
Blaise Pascal
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
Thomas Pynchon
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William Jerrold
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare
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