Chocolate Quotations and Sayings

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It (mercury) could be taken internally, for example: one eighteenth-century recipe called for mixing the liquid metal with hot chocolate, though the author cautioned against this exotic beverage because he felt the "chocolate" was too dangerous.: --Peter Lewis Allen
People in Stamps used to say that the whites in our town were so prejudiced that a Negro couldn’t buy vanilla ice cream. Except on July Fourth. Other days he had to be satisfied with chocolate.: --Maya Angelou
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.: --Dave Barry
A steaming cup of hot chocolate with buttered toast is surely one of the most heart warming, body warming, and taste-satisfying combinations known to man.: --James Beard
I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.: --John Belushi
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 Boynton
Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same could be said of dirt.: --Sandra Boynton
If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.: --Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate....and marvels will be performed.: --Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.: --Sandra Bullock
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.: --Truman Capote
Other things are just food. But chocolate's chocolate.: --Patrick Skene Catling
[Chocolate is a] divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a while day without food.: --Hernan Cortes
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
I don't eat it, because otherwise I remember how much I love it, and I'd eat it every day.: --Jodie Foster
The damnable agent of necromancers and sorcerers. It is well to abstain from chocolate in order to avoid the familiarity and company of a nation so suspected of sorcery (Spain).: --French Cleric (1620)
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one [what women want]. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.: --Mel Gibson
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.: --Linda Grayson
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.: --Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump
What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.: --Katherine Hepburn
Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing.: --Milton Snavely Hershey
I love Hershey bars, Butterfingers, ice cream, chocolate sauce on top of the ice cream, brownies, chocolate chip cookies. I'm lucky I'm not 200 pounds.: --Ron Howard
Now I'm fond of beans and weenies, milk does a body good And I always eat my veggies cuz Mrs. Howdy says I should But if I had my druthers and could eat what I would like You know what I'd be having every morning noon and night S'mores, s'mores; sure do love s'mores Graham cracker, marshmallow, Hershey bar; sure do love s'mores Squeeze it squishes, so delicious; my tummy's begging for Graham cracker, marshmallow, Hershey bar; sure do love s'mores...: Buck Howdy--the S'mores Song
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
I love chocolate pudding. I would even say it's my favorite thing.: --Ashley Judd
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces 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
Even if you feed the cow cocoa you will not get chocolate milk.: --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It's strengthening, restorative, and apt to repair decayed strength and make people strong.: --Louis Lemery (1702)
Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.: --Michael Levine
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
In Sweden chocolate is the dearest beverage of all, mainly for fine ladies, whose gusto is not accustomed to stronger spirituous drinks and in a childlike manner, led by natural instinct, desire mild and sweet food but avoid all strong.: --Carolus Linnaeus
If I have chocolate around, I will eat it. I love it, I love it, I love it. I like a piece every day.: --Julia Louis-Dreyfus
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.: --Emily Luchetti
Oh, divine chocolate! They grind thee kneeling, Beat thee with hands praying, And drink thee with eyes to heaven.: Marco Antonio Orellana (18th century)
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.: --Al Pacino as John Milton in The Devil's Advocate
I got to thinking about relationship and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together--like chocolate and peanut butter.: Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City
A new British survey has revealed that nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person lies.: --Robert Paul
I'm not a big sweets person. But I'm a chocolate person. It's the good stuff.": --Michelle Pfeiffer
Chocolate is a divine, celestial drink, the sweat of the stars, the vital seed, divine nectar, the drink of the gods, panacea and universal medicine.: Geronimo Piperni (1796)
He has no more backbone than a chocolate éclair.: --Theodore Roosevelt, of President William McKinley
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?: --Marquise de Sévigné
Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.: --Claudia Schiffer
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!: --Charles Schultz
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.: Charles M. Schultz
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.: --George Bernard Shaw
My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.: --Alicia Silverstone
I'm a chocolate fiend, but only dark chocolate. I'm thinking of marketing my white- and dark-chocolate macadamia nut cookies. They're yummy. They're so not on my diet.: --Sharon Stone
I probably have some sort of chocolate five times a week. There's definitely a change it does to the chemistry of the body. It's my favorite feeling. I live for it.: --John Travolta
Life is like a box of chocolates—full of nuts!: --Unknown, Bumper Sticker
There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.: --Unknown
Forget love...I'd rather fall in chocolate!: --Unknown
There's more to life than chocolate, but not right now.: --Unknown
I have this theory that chocolate slows down the aging process…It may not be true, but do I dare to take the chance?: --Unknown
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