The assumption that puns are per se contemptible, betrayed by the habit of describing every pun not as a pun , but as a bad pun or a feeble pun , is a sign at once of sheepish docility and desire to seem superior. Puns are good, bad, and indifferent and only those who lack the wit to make them are unaware of the fact. A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. The words of the Constitution .
Reading makes a full man, meditiation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. Sigmund Freud, The Letters of Sigmund Freud I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem. What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me.