Ice cream can be comforting, delightful, and downright delicious when enjoyed in its many varieties. Since its invention, this classic summertime treat has been celebrated by some of the greatest minds worldwide with innumerable quotes expressing one’s fondness for it.

Whether used as a pick-me-up after having a rough day or simply to celebrate life’s special moments, everyone is sure to find something that speaks to their appreciation for ice cream.

Here are 100 such quotes about this creamy treat!

100 Quotes, Sayings & Captions About Ice Cream

  1. A strong believer in ice cream for breakfast.
  2. A world where ice cream doesn’t exist is a world of anarchy and disorder.
  3. An extra topping never hurts!
  4. Condense happiness and you get ice cream!
  5. Don’t bother counting other people’s sprinkles. Focus on your own happiness before it melts away.
  6. Don’t let your ice cream melt and drip without getting the chance to eat it. Life is the same, you have to enjoy it before you lose it.
  7. Even if ice cream is cold, it has the power to melt away a frozen heart.
  8. Happiness is a tub of ice cream.
  9. Humanity’s greatest blunder is thinking that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.
  10. Ice cream always sounds like a great idea.
  11. Ice cream is a currency of happiness and delight.
  12. If I have a weakness, it’s probably ice cream. That’s where I get lax and sloppy.
  13. If there is a moment in my life that I would like to experience all over again, it would be the very first time I tasted ice cream.
  14. If you like it, you lick it. Even children know that.
  15. Imagine a world where ice cream is illegal. I would never dream of being part of such a barbaric world.
  16. I scream. You shout. We all scream for ice cream. – Ice cream
  17. The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. – Wallace Stevens
  18. It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather. – Anne Fadiman
  19. It’s funny. When people come to buy ice cream, they are happy. It’s a delight. – Mike Manfredi
  20. You miss 100% of the ice cream you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
  21. Ice cream brings people together. – Doug Ducey
  22. I always liked running as a kid. Do you know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That’s the same way that running and competing make me feel. – Ashton Eaton
  23. 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
  24. To see a starving child eat a bowl of rice like it’s ice cream – there’s a satisfaction in that, which words cannot express. – Ronnie Hepperly
  25. Sometimes if you’ve got a story that’s interesting enough, you don’t need to pour sugar on ice cream. The ice cream is great. – Paul Schneider
  26. After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream. – Saina Nehwal
  27. You didn’t sell or want to buy me ice cream. You gave me my favorite flavor. – Petra Hermans
  28. I’m not ice cream, I’m a human being. – Louise Rennison
  29. Even an ice cream parlor – a definite advantage – does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore. – Natalie Goldberg
  30. Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality. – Heather King
  31. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream, and that is pretty much the same thing.
  32. No, I was just good at holding ice cream cones.
  33. I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream.
  34. Life is like ice cream: Enjoy it before it melts.
  35. Never ask a woman who is eating ice cream straight from the carton how she’s doing.
  36. One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
  37. The cold never bothered me anyway. – Frozen, Let It Go
  38. Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.
  39. Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.
  40. If life is a bowl of dark ice cream, the small moments we enjoy are colorful sprinkles all over it.
  41. It was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all. – Lemony Snicket
  42. Tomorrow, we can eat broccoli, but today is for ice cream.
  43. Lieutenant Dan, I got you some ice cream. Lieutenant Dan, ice cream! – Forrest Gump
  44. The best time for ice cream is always.
  45. There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.
  46.  guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination. – L.M. Montgomery
  47. I never say no to ice cream. – Ingrid Betancourt
  48. When I’m no longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. – Snoop Dogg
  49. Living life without a purpose is like having an ice cream cone in your hand [and] letting it melt and drip without eating it. It was yours to enjoy, but you lost it! – RVM
  50. Sometimes all you need is love… Oh, wait! And ice cream, and chocolate to go along with it, as nowadays love is anything but sweet. – Megha Khare
  51. When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true. – Blake Lively
  52. When I was a kid, I used to think, ‘Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that’s as rich as I ever want to be.’ – Jimmy Dean
  53. My love for ice cream emerged at an early age – and has never left! – Ginger Rogers
  54. I’ve already had one ice cream cone. This is my secondary.
  55. I’ve got the inside scoop on the best ice cream flavors.
  56. Ice cream is worth melting for.
  57. I’ll scream if I don’t get some ice cream.
  58. I love sundaes cherry much.
  59. You know it’s a cool day when you have some ice cream.
  60. Ice cream is cheaper than therapy.
  61. I was just good at holding ice cream cones. – Mitch Hedberg.
  62. There is a big confusion in this country over what we want versus what we need…you need food. You want a chocolate sundae. – Mitch Albom.
  63. Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. – Don Kardong.
  64. It was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all. – Lemony Snicket.
  65. Tomorrow we can eat broccoli, but today is for ice cream. – Malory Hobson.
  66. I never say no to ice cream.
  67. When I was a kid, I used to think, ‘Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that’s as rich as I ever want to be.’- Jimmy Dean.
  68. My love for ice cream emerged at an early age — and has never left! – Ginger Rogers
  69. Ice cream brings people together. – Doug Ducey.
  70. Broccoli is not as bad as people make out. It might give you wind, but I’d prefer to have wind and have good health. Health is the number one thing on the planet. However, I am quite partial to rum and raisin ice cream. – Chris Eubank Sr.
  71. Ice cream soothes the soul. – Adrienne Posey.
  72. I’m trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables. – Dan Brown.
  73. Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation. – Sarah Addison Allen
  74. Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream. – Charles Baxter
  75. Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. – Don Kardong
  76. It was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all. – Lemony Snicket
  77. I always say whoever can figure out how to make ice cream healthy will be a gazillionaire. – Justin Deeley
  78. Don’t let your ice cream melt while you’re counting someone else’s sprinkles. – Akilah Hughes
  79. You see, patriotism is a lot like ice cream. It comes in many flavors these days. Ours that tastes of freedom, love, and peace may not exactly be a bestseller but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people who wouldn’t like to try it. – Chirag Tulsiani
  80. You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream and that’s kind of the same thing. – Unknown
  81. Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation. – Sarah Addison Allen
  82. I scream you scream, we all scream for ice cream. – Unknown
  83. Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. – Don Kardong
  84. Tomorrow we can eat broccoli, but today is for ice cream. – Anonymous
  85. It is like a temptation to eat ice cream instead of something that is better for you. – Pete Sorensen
  86. A day without ice cream was a day wasted. -Iain Pears
  87. Life is like an ice cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time. – Charles M. Schulz
  88. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. – Thornton Wilder
  89. I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty. – Wendy Liebman
  90. Of course, that rationalization didn’t work at all. It would have helped if I’d had some Oreo cookie ice cream to eat that the same time. I’ve learned that self-delusion is much easier when there’s something sweet in your mouth. – Lee Goldberg
  91. The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. – Wallace Stevens
  92. The best time for ice cream is always.
  93. My love for ice cream emerged at an early age – and has never left! – Ginger Rogers
  94. The best time for ice cream is always.
  95. When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the ‘Lion King’ soundtrack. It’s really odd, but it’s true.
  96. I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination.
  97. You did not sell nor want to buy me Ice cream. You gave me my favorite flavor.
  98. An ice cream a day keeps all the tensions away!
  99. Ice cream makes anybody happy with its reach sweet taste. Let’s eat lots of Ice cream today. – Happy National Ice Cream Day!
  100. You are never too old to have ice cream.

Ice cream is certainly a classic summertime treat, and it’s not hard to see why. Judging by the plethora of quotes out there that have deemed ice cream worthy of their statement, it’s really no surprise why the sweet dessert has been savored by people around the world for years.

It stands as proof of the timelessness of joy, making it last not just through one season, but all seasons. Whether you prefer your scoop on a cone or in a cup – plain or topped with all the fixings – it doesn’t matter.

What matters is that we can all appreciate what a classic ice cream treat looks like: piled high with bliss.