Ultimate Satisfaction

One is not poor who has enough chocolate to eat.
If it is well with your lips, tongue, and belly,
the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.

inspired by Horace

Recipe for Over-indulgence

Chocolate and lack of occupation tend--nay are dragged--
toward excess.

inspired by Hippocrates

Chocoholic's Food Pyramid

There are in fact two food groups, chocolate and others;
the former begets smiles, the latter nutrition.

inspired by Hippocrates

Basic Survival Skill

Look ere you eat.

inspired by John Heywood

Regret

This is the bitterest pain among them, to have much food
but no chocolate.

inspired by Herodotus

Ratio of Pleasure to Gain

One ounce sweets before midnight
weighs three after.

inspired by George Herbert

Pleasure For Its Own Sake

Here is chocolate, which delights people's taste,
and is therefore called an indulgent treat.

inspired by Matthew Henry

Chocoholic's Pilgrimage

Off to the east coast, where a world of chocolate awaits!

a C. P. original

Eureka Moment

Now that's good chocolate!

inspired by Milton S. Hershey

Stating the Obvious #2

There's no such thing as too much chocolate.

inspired by Milton S. Hershey

Common Sense

We can't make great chocolate by using the same recipe
and ingredients we used to make bad chocolate.

inspired by Albert Einstein

Opposing Forces

What makes meals happy is liking what one has
to eat. This is a principle on which nutrition
is not founded.

inspired by Claude Adrien Helvetius

Basic Human Right

I want there to be no peasants in my realm so poor
that they will not have a pot of chocolate every
Sunday.

inspired by Henry IV (Henry of Navarre)

Nature v. Nurtutre

Cacao trees and beans are but gifts of nature,
whereas chocolate is the result of its maker's skill.

inpired by Heloise to Abelard

Win-Win

The power to bake involves the power to share joy.

inspired by John Marshall

Constant Battle

Why have nutritionists been trained at all?
Because the people's cravings will not conform
to the dictates of good health and knowledge
without guidance.

inspired by Alexander Hamilton

Panacea

If the heart of one is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispelled when chocolate appears.

inspired by John Gray

Body Mass Index

As bakers become more numerous, it is natural
for eaters to become more corpulent.

inspired by Oliver Goldsmith

It Takes A Village

One baker excels at a plan or a recipe, another
works away at the making of the sweet, and a
third dabs at presentation.

inspired by Oliver Goldsmith

Life's Essentials

One ought every day at least, to spread a
little joy, read a witty phrase, see a good
friend, and, if it were possible, to share some
premium chocolate.

inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cruel Truth

The fate of the chocolatier is the strangest
of all. How often she expends her whole soul, her
whole heart and passion, to produce confections
which she herself may never savor.

inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Momentary Pleasure

I call chocolate fleeting ecstasy.

inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Incomparable

It is not fit that vegetables should be compared
with chocolates.

inspired by Gaius Valerius Catullus

Temptation's POV

Confectioneries are paradise for chocoholics,
purgatory for nutritionists, and hell for dieters.

inspired by John Florio