Saturday, April 30, 2011

Waste Not, Want Not

Have I inadvertently squandered chocolate?

inspired by Phocion

Friday, April 22, 2011

Sweet Comfort

Chocolates soothe a multitude of woes.

inspired by Menander

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Incentive To Retreat

The one who runs may live to eat chocolate again.

inspired by Menander

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Ultimatum

Stop eating my chocolates, and buy some of your own.

inspired by Martial

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Quality Control

Some luxurious, some good, and lots plain bad:
that's how chocolates are made, my friend.

inspired by Martial

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Skilled Only Need Apply

Not all who own a pan are bakers.

inspired by Marcus Terentius Varro

Friday, April 15, 2011

Newton's 3rd Law of Indulgence

Those who eat much great chocolate must
also workout greatly.

inspired by Marcus Licinius Crassus

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Gratitude

You will enjoy luxury chocolate if you savor
every taste as though it were your last.

inspired by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Final Request

I intend to die in a chocolatier; let the
confections be placed near my dying mouth,
so that when the choirs of angels come, they
may say, "God be merciful to this self-indulger!"

inspired by Walter Map

Friday, April 8, 2011

Budget Cuts

She was so poor that she could not buy chocolate.

inspired by Longus

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Deciding Opinion

There is delight in baking, though none
taste beside the baker.

inspired by Walter Savage Landor

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Make Chocolate, Not War

The chocolatier's renown...has been purchased,
not by deeds of violence and blood, but by
the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

inspired by Washington Irving

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Unconditional Love

Good chocolate needs no reason, nor additives.

inspired by Ibycus

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Internal Collapse

Baked goods without leaven fall of their own weight.

inspired by Horace

Friday, April 1, 2011

Unavoidable Consequences

It is the hips and thighs where the chocolate settles.

inspired by Horace