Fried, baked, mashed, or scalloped, it’s hard to find a preparation potatoes aren’t suited for. It’s the choose your own adventure of the food world. Salute the spuds with the collection of savory and humorous potato quotes below.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is under ground.Sir Thomas Overbury
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I bought a big bag of potatoes and it's growing eyes like crazy. Other foods rot. Potatoes want to see.Bill Callahan
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Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.Dolly Parton
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Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.Nora Ephron
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For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.M.F.K. Fisher
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What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.A.A. Milne
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There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.Gayle King
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Not everyone can be a truffle. Most of us are potatoes. And a potato is a very good thing to be.Massimo Bottura
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The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes.Richard P. Feynman
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Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.Linda Wells
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Never judge a potato by its skin. One day, it will be french fries.Ian Wilson
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My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.Oprah Winfrey
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.Douglas Adams
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Only two things in this world are too serious to be jested on, potatoes and matrimony.Irish Sayings
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The potato, like man, was not meant to dwell alone.Shila Hibben
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There is all the pleasure that one can have in gold digging in finding one’s hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.Sarah Orne Jewett
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You're like a potato, in a minefield!Brandon Sanderson
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It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.M.F.K. Fisher
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Potato salad is very personal: everyone makes theirs differently.Trisha Yearwood
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The potato was probably carried to Spain by returning explorers in the sixteenth century.Eugene Grubb
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Potatoes were the waiters, potatoes were the band, and potatoes were the dancers.Vachel Lindsay
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The potato gatherers, or whatever life bestows.Liam Ó Comain
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The summer squash promoted. Harvested the sweet potato.Ambrose Bierce
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A smiling little orchard and a big potato patch.Robert William Service