These mint quotes will inspire you. Mint is an aromatic plant native to temperate regions of the Old World, several kinds of which are used as culinary herbs or peppermint candy.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mint quotes, mint sayings, and mint proverbs.
Famous Mint Quotes
- “The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.” ~ Evan Esar
- “Fresher than a pillow with a mint on it” ~ Drake
- “The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.” ~ John Gerard
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“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.” ~ Waverley Root
- “If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.” ~ Maggie Stiefvater
- “As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.” ~ Pliny the Elder
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“Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.” ~ Thomas B. Macaulay
- “It’s clear, it’s fresh, like a mint candy.” ~ Margaret Atwood
- “The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.” ~ Mary MacLane
- “Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.” ~ Don Marquis
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“My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.” ~ Holly Black
- “The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.” ~ Greg Proops
- “Here’s flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.” ~ Langston Hughes
- “She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.” ~ Anthony Marra
- “Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.” ~ Iggy Azalea
- “The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.” ~ Jim Bishop
- “Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. ‘Kiss me,’ he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter’s shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie’s lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. ‘I’m glad I wasn’t stuck in here alone,’ she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “….that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Breath mints and Chapstick are key if you want to have a good kiss.” ~ Brett Davern
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“I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I’m hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I’m scoring a goal in hockey.” ~ Jack Gantos
- “The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.” ~ Alexander Smith
- “Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.” ~ Billy Connolly
- “A man in all the world’s new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.” ~ Tennessee Williams
- “Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don’t think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.” ~ Alice Hoffman
- “I’m from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.” ~ Patti Smith , Mint quotes tea
- “Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi’ the sun, and with him rise weeping.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“My intuition told me that it was the grass that was important.Now it glows parrot-green, cool as mint, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket.” ~ W. P. Kinsella
- “My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho’ she isn’t always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.” ~ Charles Farrar Browne
- “They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things– I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life’s ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There’s so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.” ~ Lisa Ann Sandell
- “I wouldn’t treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it’s all about the breath mints!” ~ Alice Englert
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“The coolest gift I’ve ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It’s a collector’s item and came with a case and a stand and everything.” ~ Josh Turner
- “Tic Tacs are the maracas of breath mints.” ~ Demetri Martin
- “I am too rich already, for my eyes Mint gold, while my heart cries.” ~ Mervyn Peake
- “I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.” ~ Bailey White
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“Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines.” ~ John Keats
- “I loved Morocco. It’s very exotic and different from anywhere I’ve ever been. I had an amazing day there in the high Atlas Mountains near Mount Tamadot, when I rode by donkey into a Berber village and drank some mint tea with a Berber family. It was exceptional.” ~ Isla Fisher
- “Use your head, Sep. Loads of wolverines. Hanging around waiting for super. Gtting excited. eating mint blasts. so what do you think they do?’ it must be here. they can’t have eaten that… i dunno, Nik, what do they do?’ POO.” ~ Angie Sage
- “He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read. He threw the book onto his bed and went to his suitcase. After rummaging about for awhile, he came up with a long, narrow box of chocolate-covered mints. He loved to eat candy while he read, and lots of his favorite books at home had brown smudges on the corners of the pages.” ~ John Bellairs
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“How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.” ~ Samuel Barber
- “I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.” ~ Andrew Motion
- “The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods – ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep – have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!” ~ Annia Ciezadlo
- “In fact we put so many things in our mouths we constantly have to be reminded what not to eat. Look at that little package of silicon gel that’s inside your sneakers. It says DO NOT EAT for a reason. Somewhere sometime some genius bought a pair of sneakers and said Ooooh look. They give you free mints with the shoes” ~ Morgan Spurlock
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“If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, ‘I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, ‘I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Economy, the poor man’s mint.” ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
- “Books were put out, and ‘had a run,’ / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn’t print?” ~ Phoebe Cary
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“The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I’ve gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there.” ~ Nikki Jean
- “The music community in Minneapolis is really incestuous so I’ve gotten the chance to work with a gang of people who have worked with Prince, Mint Condition, got to spend some time with Mujah Messiah, Atmosphere, P.O.S., Rhymesayers, a lot of poets around there.” ~ Nikki Jean
- “I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.” ~ Bryan Batt
- “I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man’s Trojans.” ~ Billy Joel
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“Now if I cry on screen I think it’s mint. Because I think that’s how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn’t, then it just doesn’t happen.” ~ Michael B. Jordan
- “I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, ‘Kid, you’re going to make a mint in television movies.’ He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.” ~ Mare Winningham
- “Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, ‘Tis not with me exactly so; But ’tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.” ~ John Quincy Adams
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“Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, ‘Tis not with me exactly so; But ’tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.” ~ John Quincy Adams
- “Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.” ~ Louise Imogen Guiney
- “Ive never drunk coffee. Im convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I have either mint, green or black tea.” ~ Saffron Aldridge , Mint quotes green
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“Yinzer: DAMN!! I wish I had your balls! Tucker:”I wish you had a breath mint, but I guess we don’t always get what we wish for.” ~ Tucker Max
- “I have a friend who actually told me that she’d rather be dead than be fat. This is a woman who, if I order a sandwich at lunch, she’ll order a salad. If I order a salad, she’ll order half a cantaloupe. If I order half a cantaloupe, she’ll order a cup of coffee. This bizarre contest continues until she’s down to sucking on a mint-flavored toothpick. At this rate, her preference for dying over being fat could be a reality sooner than she thinks.” ~ Joy Behar
- “The reason I wanted to become an organ player was because I heard Ray Charles play on Quincy Jones’ arrangement of “One Mint Julep.” I heard that sound, and it just struck me. I thought that’s what I want to do with my life. That’s the sound I want to try to make.” ~ Booker T. Jones
Mint is an aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as spearmint and peppermint.
