#pun

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #pun




...Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and "kept captive by polygamous fanatics." The main difference in the girls' respective ordeals...is that "Elizabeth was brainwashed for nine months," while Ruby had been brainwashed by polygamist fanatics "since birth." Despite the similarity of their plights, Elizabeth's abusers were jailed and charged with sexual assault, aggravated burglary, and aggravated kidnapping, while Ruby... "was returned to her abusers, no real investigation was done, no charges brought against anyone" involved.


Jon Krakauer


#mormonism #polygamy #religion #religion-and-children #women-s-rights

If you’re still waiting for it, it mean you’re not yet ready for it…whatever “it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!


Mandy Hale


#faith #keeping-the-faith #positive-thinking #preparation #punishment

Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of its duration it can seldom be kept from becoming general public knowledge. It [...] can have a lasting demoralising effect on the character and personality of the offender. The loss of liberty, tedium, regimentation [...] which prison life entails, have a greater potentiality than a whipping for destroying the offender's self-esteem and the integrity of his character and for changing, for the worse, his way of life.


P.W. Thirion


#family #human-rights #imprisonment #law #liberty

I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up his face in a look of pained concentration, mimed writing in midair. “I . . .must . . . not . . . look . . . like . . . a . . . baboon’s . . . backside.


J.K. Rowling


#detention #gregory-goyle #humor #punishment #ron-weasley

What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?


Lynne Truss


#english-language #grammar #humor #lynne-truss #punctuation

I've got a sweater.' Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. 'Here.' Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm.' Then she said, 'Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to.' Honey,' Ben said. 'When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.


Madeleine L'Engle


#spunky #humor

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.


L.M. Montgomery


#humor #poem #punishment #stealing #humor

What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.


Terry Pratchett


#opera #punctuation #humor

I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.


G.D. Falksen


#humor #humorous #inspirational #pulp-fiction #steampunk

I think they are a better race than humans ever were.


Angelo Tsanatelis


#cyberpunk #cyborg #genetic-engineering #science-fiction #intelligence