Quotes for National Ice Cream Day

Celebrating the chilly, sweet treats of summer

The third Sunday of July is National Ice Cream Day — a holiday that was designated by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. But it doesn’t have to be July for us to celebrate these chilly, sweet treats and these quotes remind us of why we love ice cream all year round, not just in the summer.

1. “Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.” -Charles Baxter

2. “Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.” -Jim Fiebig

3. “Ice cream brings people together.” -Doug Ducey 4. “Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.” -Brandon Sanderson

5. “I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.” -Wendy Liebman

6. “Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.” -Don Kardong

7. “Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it’s more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it’s a very powerful combination.” -Jerry Greenfield

8. “I never say no to an ice cream.” -Ingrid Betancourt 9. “Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one’s ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn’t like that at all.” -Neil Gaiman

10. “Don’t let your ice cream melt while you’re counting someone else’s sprinkles.” -Akilah Hughes

11. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream and that is pretty much the same thing.” -Unknown

12. “Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.” -Voltaire

13. “Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.” -Jimmy Dean 14. “It was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.” -Lemony Snicket

15. “Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.” -Charles M. Schulz

16. “If life is a bowl of dark ice cream, small moments we enjoyed are colorful sprinkles all over it.” -Unknown

17. “I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.” -Heywood Broun

18. “I eat ice cream. It’s better than booze.” -Del Shannon 19. “There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.” -Amal El-Mohtar

20. “A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.” -Ray Bradbury

21. “Tomorrow we can eat broccoli, but today is for ice cream.” -Malory Hobson

22. “The best time for ice cream is always.” -Unknown

23. “Ice cream — the great melter of all resolve.” -Dr. Idel Dreimer

24. “Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.” -Joseph Epstein 25. “If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.” -Sandra Byrd

26. “A day without ice cream was a day wasted.” -Iain Pears

27. “Ice cream is cheaper than therapy.” -Unknown

28. “Now just the thought of eating ice cream puts pounds on me.” -David Nail

29. “At my restaurant, we made a dessert called ‘milk and honey.’ It’s milk ice cream that looks like a snowball, and then you cut into it, and honey runs out.” -Daniel Humm 30. “That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. (Last words.)” -Lou Costello

31. “Ice cream is happiness condensed.” -Jessie Lane Adams

32. “I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.” -L.M. Montgomery

33. “Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.” -Judith Olney

34. “The secret to scooping ice cream is all about the scooper. You have to dip it in water before and after every scoop. Then it just rolls off.” -Crystal Reed 35. “Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.” -William Joyce 36. “Sometimes life is just what it is, and the best you can hope for is ice cream.” -Abbi Waxman

37. “Hot fudge is the fairy prince, a knight in chocolate armor — the happily ever after of ice cream.” -Terri Guillemets

38. “Some things in life are like ice cream: They’re only good for a while and then they melt. The trick is enjoying it and making the most of it while it’s still ice cream.” -Anonymous

39. “Never ask a woman who is eating ice cream straight from the carton how she’s doing.” -Nitya Prakash

40. “If you were ice cream, you would be my favorite flavor.” -Anonymous

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