"The chocoholics 12-step program:
NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!"
- Terry Moore
"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"
"Liquidum non frangit jejunum." ([chocolate] liquids, amongst them, do not constitute a break in fasting.)
- Cardinal Francis Maria Brancaccio of the Vatican, 1662
"Chocolate: Here today...Gone today!"
- Anonymous
"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
"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
"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)
"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
"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!!!"
- Anonymous
"Life is like a box of chocolates -- you never know what you're going to get."
- Forrest Gump in "Forrest Gump" (1994)
"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
"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 on NBC's Today Show, August 22
"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"
"...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