Pun/history

Famous quotes containing the words pun and/or history:

    A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
    James Boswell (1740–1795)

    I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)