“123. To a boyling pot flies come not.”

“Changes in man's society always come from the bottom, not the top, because the top does not want to change; it always wants to be on top. But if they try to seal the pot to preserve the status quo, they cannot, and the pot will explode because of the fire.”

David Berg (1919–1994) Children of God founder

“Man has been likened to an earthen pot…. You have but to tap the pot with your finger. If it rings back full and true, all is well; there is your perfect pot. And if not—man, alas, has been likened to a broken potsherd.”

Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright

“You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it’s a plant, not a reason for living. Controlled by a plant, how hilarious. A plant! A fucking plant!”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“The pot calls the kettle black.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

“a pot a cook but the food na kno”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“You may all go to pot.”

Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer

“Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot —
I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot —
"All this of Pot and Potter — Tell me then,
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"”

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer

“The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.”

Wole Soyinka (1934) Nigerian writer

“I wanted a decorative pot to keep my hose in.”

Gina Barberi