Who doesn’t love muffins, the delightful juicy little cakes that can be eaten at any time of the day? It is also one of the easiest treats to make and give as a gift.

The day Feb. 20 is annually celebrated as National Muffin Day to encourage people to bake these universally loved treats and not just consume them but also hand them out to the homeless.

Muffins come in many varieties and hence, this celebration gives you an opportunity to try out a new type of muffin or find the best muffin in town and treat yourself and your close ones to it.

On this occasion, here are a few quotes about the tiny sweet delights, courtesy AZ Quotes -

  • "One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." – Oscar Wilde
  • "Sometimes I think more creativity is put into muffin recipes than into the rest of society combined." – Jerry Seinfeld
  • "People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold." – John Jay Chapman
  • "If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs." - Anne Fadiman
  • "Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top." - Janeane Garofalo
  • "When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment, I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins." - Oscar Wilde
  • "If you have to be at work at 8, it's always like, 7:54. Just enough time to do nothing. To just lay there and go, I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!" - Dane Cook
A muffin is seen in a file photo.
A muffin is seen in a file photo. Reuters
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