Chocolate Quotes

1. There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. -Linda Grayson

2. The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!
- Terry Moore

3. 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

4. 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

5. Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits. - Baron Justus von Liebig, chemist

6. What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead. - George Bernard Shaw

7. Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one's life...but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat - these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country. - Roald Dahl

8. The divine drink, which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink (cocoa) permits a man to walk for a whole day without food. - Montezuma, Aztec Emperor

9. I never met a chocolate I didn't like. - Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation

10. 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. - Unknown

11. 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

12. 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)

13. Chocolate-coated truth tastes better. - Amy Shawnee

14. 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. - Unknown

15. 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

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

17. 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"

18. And above all... Think Chocolate. - Betty Crocker

19. Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies. – John Tullius

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

21. 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

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

23. 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

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

25. Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food. - Michael Levine, nutrition researcher

26. 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! - Unknown

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

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Great Chocolate Quips of Unknown Source:

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

Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!

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

Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

EMERGENCY ALERT: If wearer of this shirt is found vacant, listless, or depressed, ADMINISTER CHOCOLATE IMMEDIATELY.

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

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?

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.

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

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

Nothing chocolate... nothing gained.

Money talks. Chocolate sings.

Chocolate: Here today .... Gone today!

There are four basic food groups-milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.

Stress wouldn’t be so hard to take if it were chocolate covered.

Eat a square meal a day - a box of chocolate.

Nuts just take up space where chocolate ought to be.

In the cookies of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don't need an appointment.

There’s more to life than chocolate, but not right now.

Chocolate cake may not fix everything but it's a darn good substitute.

Save the earth it's the only planet with chocolate!

Once you consume chocolate, chocolate will consume you.

There is no chocolate anonymous because no one wants to quit.

If at first you don't succeed, have a chocolate.

If I must die let it be death by chocolate.

For some there's therapy for the rest of us there's chocolate.

Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands.

Never ever get between a girl and her chocolate!

There are times when chocolate really can fix all your problems.

You are never alone with a bar of chocolate.

Flowers and champagne may set the stage, but it's chocolate that steals the show.

Seven days without chocolate makes one weak!

Eating chocolate makes my clothes shrink.

Milk chocolate is a dairy product.

Chocolate is the Answer. Who cares what the Question is?

Hell hath no fury like a woman who has sworn off fudge and chocolate.

I am not overweight. I am chocolate enriched.

So much chocolate. So little time!

Do Not Disturb. Chocolate Fantasy in Progress.

When life gives you lemons, throw them back and demand chocolate.

An exhale moment deserves delicious chocolate.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy chocolate, which is pretty much the same thing!

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I wrote this poem several years ago. Enjoy.

Chocolate
Smooth, creamy, delicious chocolate.
Rich, sweet, scrumptious chocolate.
Milky, semi-sweet, and mint chocolate.
Dark, light and white chocolate.
Soft, melting, and syrupy chocolate.
Chunky, chewy and nutty chocolate.
Solid, cream-filled and fruity chocolate.
Truffles, caramels and candy bars chocolate.
Bonbons, pudding and fondue chocolate.
Hot cocoa, ice cream and mousse chocolate.
Swirl cones, milkshakes and malts chocolate.
Fudge, brownies and doughnuts chocolate.
Cookies, cakes, and frosting chocolate.
Kisses, morsels and chips of chocolate.
Delectable, succulent, mouth-watering chocolate.
Perfect, luscious, exquisite chocolate.
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate.
Want some?

by Ken R. Young

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