Quotations about Donuts
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
Relationship status: Just made extended eye contact with a doughnut ~Keith Wynn, 2017
“’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
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
Saying yes to the skinny jeans by saying no to the donuts. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, @wildthyme, tweet, 2009, betsygarmon.com
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
Such doughnuts can't be made without witchcraft... ~Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race, 1922
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, and Douglas Kenney
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
Relationship status: just had a third helping of doughnuts ~Keith Wynn, 2017
"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