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Quotations about Donuts
Welcome to my page of quotations about donuts, or if you prefer, doughnuts. There aren't many better desserts — or if you prefer, breakfasts — than this
Fresh popcorn is near impossible to resist, second only to fresh doughnuts. ~Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember, 2014
Relationship status: Just made extended eye contact with a doughnut ~Keith Wynn, tweet, 2017 ["So your eyes glazed over?" ~Alan Rhodes, @Protogenes1
The Zen philosopher Basho once wrote, "A flute with no holes is not a flute. A donut with no hole is a Danish." ~Caddyshack, 1980, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, & Douglas Kenney
I'll wish for my tree to grow doughnuts and crullers!
Those brave old times, when great mince-pies
Were piled on every shelf,
And every Knickerbocker boy
Could go and help himself...
And good, old-fashioned doorways, where
The upper part swung in,
Where a Dutchman could his elbows lean,
And smoke his pipe and grin.
The doughnuts were all good to eat,
And made as big as bricks,
And 'twas not thought unmannerly
To eat as much as six.
~Ralph Hoyt, "The Tour of St. Nicholas," 1839
Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible. ~H. L. Mencken, 1914
“’Twixt optimist and pessimist
The difference is droll—
The optimist sees the doughnut,
The pessimist sees the hole!”
’Twixt optimist and pessimist
You’re wrong, upon my soul—
The pessimist eats the doughnut,
The optimist eats the hole.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit, "The Difference," 1908
Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts. ~Susan Jane Gilman, 1998
I go to school... We carry brown bread and butter, and doughnuts, and cheese, and apple-pie in tin pails, for luncheon. Don't you remember the brown cupboard in Aunt Oldways' kitchen, how sagey, and doughnutty, and good it always smelt? It smells just so now, and everything tastes just the same. ~Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks, 1871
I'd go to yoga,
But they don't serve donuts there.
Namaste right here.
~Kate Miller-Wilson, "Yoga Haiku," 20 Funny Haiku Poems, YourDictionary.com, 2020
Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, @wildthyme, tweet, 2009, betsygarmon.com
Relationship status: just had a third helping of doughnuts ~Keith Wynn, tweet, 2017
The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis... ~Beatrice and Ira Freeman, 1960
A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. ~George Rosenbaum, as quoted by Molly O'Neill, "Bagels Are Now Fast Food, And Purists Do a Slow Boil," in The New York Times, 1993
The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Out of the frying-pan into the face — Mothers' doughnuts. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904
It may be that common ideas, or a common class, or race, draw men together; but not one of them equals in sheer magic the binding power of a good doughnut. After this experience I am sure of it. There we all were, picked up at random out of the flotsam of life — and like old friends… ~David Grayson, Adventures in Understanding, 1925
Sweet cider now, and punkin pize,
And maidens fair, and doughnuts greasy:
Who wouldn't be a farmer's boy,
So phull ov phun, so free and eazy?
~Josh Billings
About 95% of my time is spent contemplating the universe, making art, and trying to be a better friend, lover, woman, etc. The other 5% of the time, I'm just like… "I would really love a donut right now." ~Cleo Wade, @cleowade, Instagram post, 2019
"Mr. Tarkington," added Miss Ellenborough, "is well known as the author of the Beaucaire doughnut, the pride of Indiana doughnutdom." ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race, 1922
Such doughnuts can't be made without witchcraft... ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race, 1922
Churros are originally from Spain, but since I've given credit to Wisconsin for the German bratwurst in this book, I should probably blame Mexico for the churro. If you don't know what a churro is, just try to picture a ribbed doughnut stick... It's like the pipe cleaner of pastry. ~Jim Gaffigan, "Mexican Foodland," Food: A Love Story, 2014
Mmm, looks like a Slim Jim, tastes like a donut. ~My Name Is Earl, "South of the Border: Part Uno," 2006, written by Michael Pennie [S2, E10, Earl, about a churro]
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