Famous quotes containing the word put:
“To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)