UNSTERS being abused, and the old joke repeated that "He who puns will pick a pocket," some one said, "Punsters themselves have no pockets." "No," said Lamb, "they carry only a ridicule."
Crabb Robinson, Diary.
T is always a pleasure to me when two of my friends like each other, just as I am always glad when two of my enemies take to fighting with each other.
Heinrich Heine, Preface to Don Quixote.
HE stood on his head on the wild sea-shore,
And joy was the cause of the act,
For he felt as he never had felt before,
Insanely glad, in fact.
And why? In that vessel that left the bay
His mother-in-law had sail'd
To a tropical country far away,
Where tigers and snakes prevail'd.
Songs of Singularity.