Wonders of chocolate

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
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The 12-step chocoholics program:
NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!
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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
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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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A chocolate in the mouth is worth two on the plate.
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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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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! E
Elaine Sherman, Book of Divine Indulgences
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Forget love-- I'd rather fall in chocolate!!!
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Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!
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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
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Seen recently on a tee shirt ~ EMERGENCY ALERT: If wearer of this shirt is found vacant, listless, or depressed, ADMINISTER CHOCOLATE IMMEDIATELY.
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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.
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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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Exercise is a dirty word... Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
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Chocolate is good for three things. Two of 'em cannot be mentioned on public television.
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Nuts just take up space where chocolate ought to be.
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A day without chocolate is a day without sunshine.
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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!!!
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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
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Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get.
Forrest Gump in "Forrest Gump" (1994)
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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.
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Chocolate in the morning is what makes moms get through their day!
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Chocolate doesn't make the world go around ... but it certainly makes the ride worthwhile!
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Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can.
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Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana.
Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show, August 22
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Chocolate: luscious, lumpy. load of love......
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... 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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Simply put... everyone has a price, mine is chocolate!
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