Life

I bake, therefore I eat.

inspired by Rene Descartes

All-Natural Inspiration

And muse on Nature with a baker's eye.

inspired by Thomas Campbell

Culinary Context

If we had no vegetables, chocolates would not
be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste
of dinner, dessert would not be so welcome.

inspired by Anne Bradstreet

Peace Treats

Chocolate reconciles us to everything.

inspired by Edmund Burke

Heaven

I dreamt that I dwelt in chocolate halls,
With bakers and chefs at my side.

inspired by Alfred Bunn

What We Really Want

We are much beholden to cookbooks and chefs,
that they write what we like to bake, and not
what we ought to bake.

inspired by Francis Bacon

Stating the Obvious

Chocolates are for eating.

inspired by Francis Bacon

Strange But True

Pure chocolates are as much superior to impure chocolates
as the living are to the dead.

inspired by Aristotle

Actions Tell the Truth

Shared chocolates show those who are really friends.

inspired by Aristotle

Culinary Disability or Super Power?

One who is unable to eat chocolate, or who has no need
because she is sufficient for herself, must be either
a beast or a goddess.

inspired by Aristotle

Baiting the Palate

Without chocolate no one would eat dessert,
though she eat all other courses.

inspired by Aristotle

Worth the Risk

Possibly good chocolate is always preferable
to definitely bad chocolate.

inspired by Aristotle

Essential Ingredients

Chocolate is that which has purity, flavor, and depth.

inspired by Aristotle

Follow Your Passion

They should bake who are able to bake best.

inspired by Aristotle

Culinary Improvisation

Even when recipes have been written down,
they ought not always to remain unaltered.

inspired by Aristotle

Looks Can Be Deceiving

Its color does not make it chocolate.

inspired by Aristotle

Simultaneous Pleasures

What is a treat? Dual flavors dwelling in one chocolate.

inspired by Aristotle

Delicious Generosity

Chocolates are gifts as food.

inspired by Aristotle

Delectable Magnetism

Chocolate draws people together.

inspired by Aristotle's quoting a proverb

Fundamental Elements

The basis of pure chocolate delicacies is quality.

inspired by Aristotle

Intrinsic Value

Chocolate by nature is a divine treat.

inspired by Aristotle

Tasting Is Believing

With regard to chocolate, it is not enough to see,
but we must try to have and eat it.

inspired by Aristotle

More Incentive

When one eats, she is full and successful and wins
contracts and is happy and helps her friends.
Quickly, bring me many chocolates, so that I may
prime my tongue and say something clever.

inspired by Aristophanes

Incentives

Give me chocolates, and I will move the earth!

inspired by Archimedes

Enough Said

Chocolates!

inspired by Archimedes

Essential Elements

We must have rich chocolate.

inspired by Antiphanes

Buffet of Confections

Bring sweets, bring sweets, boy! Bring boxes of
chocolates to me! Yes, bring them, so that I may
try them all with love.

inspired by Anacreon

Heaven

Let us run into chocolate fields.

inspired by Alcaeus

Alchemy of Quality

It is circumstance and proper timing that give
chocolate its character and make it either good or bad.

inspired by Agesilaus

Disaster Avoidance

Beware lest you lose the center by grasping at the shell.

inspired by Aesop

Mood Swing

Chocolate eaten in anxiety tastes as good as
vegetables eaten in peace.

inspired by Aesop

Bait and Switch

I will have nought to do with a man who gives and
takes chocolate with the same hand.

inspired by Aesop

Reasons to Indulge

Any excuse to serve chocolate.

inspired by Aesop

Fraud

Chocolate imposters breed contempt.

inspired by Aesop

Expectation

Do not count your chocolate before it is eaten.

inspired by Aesop

Sixth Sense

Woman with a taste for chocolate: milk, dark or ivory
is like one that has another sense, when compared with
such as have no relish for those treats.

inspired by Joseph Addison

Subconscious Cravings

Sweet are the dreams of a virtuous woman.

inspired by Joseph Addison

Cause and Effect

Chocolate is to joy what exercise is to health.

inspired by Joseph Addison

Enticement

Therefore don't you be gentle to your man either.
Don't show him all your sweets, but share one and keep
the chocolate hidden.

inspired by Homer

Deception

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is the sweet
which looks rich brown on its shell but tastes pale dust.

inspired by Homer

Pleasant Surprises

A small treat can hold a great taste.

inspired by Homer

Balance

There is a time for work-out reps, and there is also
a time for sweets.

inspired by Homer

A Matter of Taste

There is a sweetness to all treats, even without chocolate.

inspired by Homer

Sensory Overload

Chocolate is indulgence of the senses.

inspired by Homer

Consequences of Pleasure

Chocolate shifts from mouth to thigh.

inspired by Homer

General Principle #2

Your shell is harder than your center.

inspired by Homer

Dream World

The immortals will send you to the Chocolate Plain
at the ends of the earth, where dark-haired Cocoathys is.
There life is supremely easy for all. No tooth rot there,
nor always counting calories, nor weight, and Full Joy is
ever flowing throughout the land to bring peace to all.

inspired by Homer

Tenets of Friendship

Good chocolates make good friends.

inspired by Robert Frost

Happiness Equation

Chocolate is 95% delicious and the other half is bliss.

inspired by Yogi Berra

Ultimate Truth

It's not chocolate 'til it's chocolate.

inspired by Yogi Berra

Anticipation

The delicious sweets of the gods are not to be gulped in haste.

inspired by Homer

Decisions, Decisions

So many sweets, so many chocolates;
each one its own gift.

inspired by Terence

General Principle

Verily great grace may go
With a little gift; and precious are chocolates that come from friends.
inspired by Theocritus

Generosity

We share chocolate that we may live in ecstasy.
inspired by Aristotle

Simple Pleasures

Chocolate: There's no treat in the world so delightful as chocolate.
inspired by Sophocles

Self-esteem

Eat no chocolate unequal to yourself.
inspired by Confucius

Necessary Indulgence

What life is there, what delight, without decadent chocolate?
inspired by Mimnermus