Chocolate Quotations
"It's a chocolate, chocolate, chocolate world. And what a palace it was! It had one hundred rooms, and everything was made of either dark or light chocolate! The bricks were chocolate, and the cement holding them together was chocolate, and the windows were chocolate, and the walls and ceilings were made of chocolate, so were the carpets and the pictures and the furniture and the beds; and when you turned on the taps in the bathroom, hot chocolate came pouring out."
-Ronald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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"The superiority of chocolate both for health and nourishment will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain."
-Thomas Jefferson
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"Chocolate: Here today...gone today."
-Anonymous
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"Chocolate doesn't make the world go around, but it sure does make the trip worthwhile."
-Anonymous
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"No other Factory in the world mixes its chocolate by waterfall."
-Willy Wonka
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"Chocolate is not only pleasant of taste, but it is also a veritable balm of the mouth, for the maintaining of all glands and humors in a good state of health. Thus it is, that all who drink it, possess a sweet breath."
-Stephan Blancardi (1650-1702), Italian physician
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"Chocolate is most excellent, in nourishing and preserving health entire, purging by expectoration's, and especially by the sweat-vents of the body, preventing unnatural fumes ascending to the head."
-William Hughes, The American Physician (1672)
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"Life without chocolate is life lacking something important."
-Marcia Colman Morton & Frederic Morton (Writers)
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"Chocolate is nature's way of making up for Mondays."
-Anonymous.
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"Stress wouldn't be so hard to take if it were chocolate covered."
-Anonymous.
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"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!"
-Charles M Shulz
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"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...chocolate..."
-Homer Simpson
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"Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate!"
-Author Unknown
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"The divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits man to walk for a whole day without food."
-Hernando Cortes 1519
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"It's strengthening, restorative, and apt to repair decayed strength and make people strong."
-Louis Lemery 1702
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Oh, divine chocolate!
They grind thee kneeling,
Beat thee with hands praying,
And drink thee with eyes to heaven.
-Marco Antonio Orellana, 18th century
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"Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can."
-Unknown
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"There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles."
-Anonymous
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"And above all... Think Chocolate!"
-"Betty Crocker"
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"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
-Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (1888-1935)
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"Chocolate is a divine, celestial drink, the sweat of the stars, the vital seed, divine nectar, the drink of the gods, panacea and universe medicine.
-Geronimo Piperini, quoted by Antonio Lavendan, surgeon in the Spanish army, 1976
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"What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead."
-George Bernard Shaw 1984
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"I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter."
-Unknown
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"Las cosas claras y el chocolate espresso." (Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick.)
-Spanish proverb
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"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."
-James Wadworth (1768-1844; A History of the Nature and Quality of Chocolate)
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"My tongue is smiling."
-Abigail Trillin, age four, On finishing a dish of chocolate ice cream, quoted by her father Calvin Trillin Alice, Let's Eat Random House 78
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"Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate."
-Sandra Boynton, author
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"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate."
-Jo Brand
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"After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate."
-Mel Gibson
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"Equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is a balanced diet"
-Unknown
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"Just as bees will swarm about to protect their nest, so will I 'swarm about' to protect my nest of chocolate eggs."
-Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts], Recurring Saturday Night Live comedy bit
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"As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate."
-Sandra (Keith) Boynton (b. 1953), Writer, author
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"A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies."
-Robert Paul
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"Help! Send chocolate!"
-Jennifer Konerman
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"Giving chocolate to others is an intimate form of communication, a sharing of deep, dark secrets."
-Milton Zelman, publisher of "Chocolate News"
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"There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with CHOCOLATE"
-Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"
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"EMERGENCY ALERT: If wearer of this shirt is found vacant, listless, or depressed, ADMINISTER CHOCOLATE IMMEDIATELY."
-Seen recently on a tee shirt
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"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
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"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 and Mars
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"Life is like a box of chocolates.... you never know what you're gonna get."
-Forrest Gump
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"A day without chocolate is a day without sunshine."
-Unknown
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"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."
-Unknown
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"Chocolate flows in deep dark, sweet waves, a river to ignite my mind and alert my" senses
-Unknown
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"Chocolate doesn't make the world go around ... but it certainly makes the ride worthwhile!"
-Unknown
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"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who love chocolate, and communists."
-Leslie Moak Murray in 'Murray's Law' comic strip
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"Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate."
-John Milton, The Devils Advocate
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"Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don't need an appointment."
-Anonymous
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"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 (1803-1873) German chemist
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