Chocolate Wisdom

Good Living is an act of intelligence, by which we
choose things which have an agreeable taste rather
than those which do not. ~Brillat-Savarin

The 12-step chocoholics program:
NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!
~Terry Moore

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar
into four pieces with your bare hands - and then
eat just one of the pieces.~Judith Viorst

Giving chocolate to others is an intimate form of
communication, a sharing of deep, dark secrets.
~Milton Zelman, publisher of "Chocolate News"

A chocolate in the mouth is worth two on the plate.

If it ain't chocolate, it ain't breakfast!

There's nothing better than a good friend, except
a good friend with CHOCOLATE. ~Linda Grayson

"Liquidum non frangit jejunum." ([chocolate] liquids,
amongst them, do not constitute a break in fasting.)
~Cardinal Francis Maria Brancaccio of the Vatican, 1662

Chocolate: Here today .... Gone today!

Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete
hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making
you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn
reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life
helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically
and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate!~Elaine Sherman,
Book of Divine Indulgences

Forget love-- I'd rather fall in chocolate!!!

I never met a chocolate I didn't like.

Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!

Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.
~Milton Snavely Hershey

A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion
and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to
keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to
keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals
who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being
discriminating.~Julie Davis of the Los Angeles Times, 10/30/85

Seen recently on a tee shirt ~ EMERGENCY ALERT: If wearer of
this shirt is found vacant, listless, or depressed,
ADMINISTER CHOCOLATE IMMEDIATELY.

This guy found a bottle on the ocean, and he opened it and out
popped a genie, and he gave him three wishes. The guy wished
for a million dollars, and poof! there was a million dollars.
Then he wished for a convertible, and poof! there was a convertible.
And then, he wished he could be irresistible to all women...*poof*
he turned into a box of chocolates.

It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love.
Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let's face it,
far more reliable than a man.~Miranda Ingram

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then
doesn't hurt! Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

Exercise is a dirty word... Every time I hear it,
I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

Chocolate is good for three things. Two of 'em cannot
be mentioned on public television.

"Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso." (Ideas should
be clear and chocolate thick.) Spanish proverb

Nuts just take up space where chocolate ought to be.

I don't understand why so many "so called" chocolate
lovers complain about the calories in chocolate, when
all true chocoholics know that it is a vegetable. It
comes from the cocoa bean, beans are veggies, 'nuff said.

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect
food. Michael Levine, nutrition researcher, as quoted in
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey & Mars

I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter.

Put the chocolate in the bag and nobody gets hurt.

A day without chocolate is a day without sunshine.

Life without chocolate is like a beach without water.

I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging
process...It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance?

I am a serious chocoholic. For the serious chocoholic,
chocolate is better than sex. If you believe that, you
REALLY need to meet that special someone who can change
your mind. If you HAVE met that special someone and still
believe that, I REALLY NEED to know where you get your
chocolate!!!

Chocolate is the best when it melts so creamy and soft
in your mouth and it slides down your throat.

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling
guilty. Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will
not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.
Lora Brody, author of Growing Up on the Chocolate Diet

Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what
you're going to get. Forrest Gump in "Forrest Gump" (1994)

If life is like a box of chocolates, then its time for me to buy
another box, I seemed to have already devoured all the good ones!

Life is like a box of chocolates, the best ones are half eaten!!

In the beginning, the Lord created chocolate, and he saw that it
was good. Then he separated the light from the dark, and it was better.

Chocolate - The breakfast of champions!

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of
a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate
substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients
(calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with
vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and
consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as
persuasively be made in favor of dirt.~Sandra Boynton,
author of Chocolate: the Consuming Passion

Chocolate in the morning is what makes moms get through their day!

If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top
pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devasated.

Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today.
That way, at least you'll get one thing done. ~Author Unknown.

Chocolate flows in deep dark, sweet waves, a river to ignite my mind and alert my senses

Chocolate doesn't make the world go around ... but it certainly makes the ride worthwhile!

Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can.

Everything I eat should contain either garlic or chocolate, but rarely both

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the
same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also
discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember
what they are. Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show, August 22

Twill make Old Women Young and Fresh; Create New Motions of the
Flesh. And cause them long for you know what, If they but taste
of chocolate. from "A History of the Nature and Quality of
Chocolate", James Wadworth (1768-1844)

Chocolate: luscious, lumpy. load of love......

All of the evil that people have thrust upon chocolate is really
more deserved by milk chocolate, which is essentially contaminated.
The closer you get to a pure chocolate liquor (the chocolate essence
ground from roasted cacao beans) the purer it is, the more satisfying
it is, the safer it is, and the healthier it is. Arnold Ismach,
"The Darker Side of Chocolate"

...the taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing
in the same world as sex...For myself, I can enjoy the wicked
pleasure of chocolate...entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it
better.~Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Simply put...everyone has a price, mine is chocolate!