Much has been said about the donut. We’ve compiled the best sayings right here from celebrities, brands, and every day folks who appreciate a good donut whether it’s glazed, old-fashioned, or something brand new.

Whether you need a creative marketing slogan for a donut shops and funny tagline to include in a PowerPoint presentation, we’ve compiled over 100 sayings about this beloved food item.

Donut Shop Slogans

donut with sprinkles

A fun-loving donut with sprinkles.

  • Good Donuts, Good Moments
  • Fun Times with Donuts
  • Good Old Donuts
  • Not Your Ordinary Donuts
  • Donuts, Amplified
  • Donuts Overload!
  • Sweet Donuts, Just For You
  • Donuts, Reimagined
  • True Delights In A Box
  • Misery’s A Pain, Grab A Donut
  • Experience A Different Kind of Donut.
  • Hustling And Bustling Good Donuts.
  • Donuts: Man’s Real Best Friend.
  • Ambrosial Donuts.
  • The Home Of Delightful Donuts.
  • Come Home To The Classic.
  • Delightful Dozen Treats.
  • This Dude Will Take a Dozen.
  • Share The Goodness
  • A Pack You’ll Always Come Back.
  • Share The Fun.
  • The Preferred Donuts In Town.

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Funny Donut Shop Taglines

donut shop

Randy’s Donuts.

  • Share and DONUT eat it alone.
  • Go Nuts With Our Donuts!
  • Donut Worry, Be Happy.
  • You Drive Me Glazed!
  • Keep Calm, Eat Donuts.
  • Hole-y Moley!
  • Donut Stop, Eat It!
  • Donut You Forget About Me
  • Glazed And Confused
  • Get Glayed!
  • You Make Me Hole.
  • We’re a Hole in One Donut Shop!
  • Hole Me Closer
  • Everybody’s Getting Glazy!
  • One Glazed Night.
  • A Hole In One Dozen.
  • O Hole-y Night!
  • Donut Give Up.
  • Donut Hole-Up Everyone
  • It’s A Glazey, Glazey World!
  • Glazed For You.

Dunkin’ Donut Slogans

  • “America Runs on Dunkin.”
  • “You ‘Kin Do It!”
  • “It’s Worth the Trip”
  • “Only at Dunkin’ Donuts”
  • “The Right side of the bed”
  • “What’s missing from your morning”
  • “Our friends call us Dunkin’ “
  • “Get Holidayin’ with dunkin’ “
  • “Loosen up a little”
  • “We don’t make it until you order it.”
  • “Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee: It’s happiness in a cup.”
  • “Love Bacon? Marry It.”
  • “America’s Favorite Donut and Coffee Shop”
  • “America’s Dunkin’ “
  • “Time to Make the Donuts”
  • “The Place for Donuts and Coffee”
  • “Always Dunkin’ “
  • “You’re Dunkin’ “
  • “You’re Still Dunkin’ “
  • “Something Fresh is Always Brewin’ Here”

Krispy Kreme Advertising Slogans

  • “Original Glazed Doughnuts”
  • “Doughnuts & Coffee Since 1937”
  • “Hot Doughnut Experience”
  • “Bring a box. Bring a joy”
  • “Lose an hour. Gain a doughnut.”
  • “Make Today Special”
  • “You Doughnut want to miss it”
  • “Happy All Around”
  • “Hot. Now.”
  • “Take some home today”
  • “Melt-in-your-mouth delicious”
  • “Wholesome goodness your whole family can enjoy”
  • “Think inside the box.”

Famous Quotes about Donuts

“Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do?” – Matt Groening

“The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.” – Oscar Wilde

“That’s my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.” – Laura Linney

“Be sweet and honest always, but for God’s sake don’t eat my doughnuts!” – Emma Bunton

“I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.” – John Belushi

“With a doughnut in each hand, anything is possible.” – Jameela Jamil

“If I had all the money in the world, I’d still make movies. But I’d want them to pay me in donuts.” – Bruce Campbell

“If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?” – Tom Robbins

“I don’t care about the weight. You know, I’m lucky; I’m one of those people – I can eat donuts, whatever, and I just get fat.” – Louis C. K.

jelly donut

Be extra careful eating jelly donuts at the office.

“If you stop eating donuts you will live 3 years longer. It’s just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .” – Lewis Black

“Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.” – William Howard Taft

“As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep your eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.” – Murray Banks

“This is a donut. It is very sweet and very good. But if you’ve never tasted a donut, you wouldn’t really know how sweet and how good a donut is… meditation is like that. Transcendental Meditation gives an experience much sweeter than the sweetness of this donut.” – David Lynch

“I’m not going to work in a place where I can’t eat donuts.” ~ Kristen Ashley

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“A new study found that Americans are exercising more than ever but still not losing much weight. Not good in fact, it’s all I could think about on my jog to Dunkin’ Donuts.” – Jimmy Fallon

“Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts.” – Susan Jane Gilman

“America is at war. Go eat a donut.” – Chris Pratt

“I usually just get into a police character by drinking coffee and eating donuts, but those days are over.” – Matt Servitto

“More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.” – Robert X. Cringely

unicorn donut shop

Find your unicorn donut.

“Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin’ Donuts.” – Eli Roth

“When you have a flaming hot donut in your hand and you’re trying to eat it you’re not worried about 10 and 2” – Jase Robertson

“She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love.” -Animal Magnetism” – Jill Shalvis

“It don’t care whether I’m good enough. It don’t care whether I snore or not. It don’t care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, donuts, and money.” – Danny DeVito

“I’m an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I’m apple picking. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.” – Rachael Ray

“I was sacked from Dunkin’ Donuts for squirting the donuts jelly all over the customers.” – Madonna Ciccone

“A flute without holes is not a flute. A donut without a hole is a Danish.” – Chevy Chase

“When shopping at Dunkin’ Donuts, pretend you are the mother of nine. Say things like, ‘Little David likes cream-filled, and Susie wanted jelly.’ That way, no one will be suspicious when you order a dozen donuts with one cup of coffee to go.” – Linda Sunshine

“Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.” – H. L. Mencken

Learn More About Donuts

Whether you say it donut or doughnut, both spelling variations are acceptable in our book. Those round usually punch-holed pastry best paired with a cup of coffee were introduced when Dutch settlers brought them to New York. These desserts were called olykoek or “oily cake” at the time., They resembled the modern donut as we know it, but didn’t feature the ring shape.

Domestically, National Donut Day is celebrated every first Friday of June each year which follows the Doughnut Day established by the Salvation Army back in 1938. This holiday commemorates the personnel who served doughnuts during World War I. Today, there are approximately 25,000 donut shops spread across the country, serving 10 billion donuts a year.

In a recent survey, it was found out that the average American consumes about 31 donuts a year or 2 – 3 donuts per month. While crazy donut burgers garner a lot of social media attention, the classic flavors are still consumed the most. Chocolate leading the way with 22%, followed by plain with 16%, and the old-fashioned donut at 13% continue to be the preferred flavors to enjoy.

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