Chocolate Wisdom from Virtual Chocolate
“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" “There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE.” —Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers" 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!!! Nobody knows the truffles I've seen! “Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.” —Milton Snavely Hershey 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. Nuts just take up space where chocolate ought to be. -87-
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 I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter. I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process... It may not be true, but do I dare take the chance? Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. Forrest Gump in "Forrest Gump" (1994) 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 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! Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can. Everything I eat should contain either garlic or chocolate, but rarely both “... 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!
