Chocolate Quotes
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These quotes sum up how important chocolate has been over the years...
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-induced feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Mariska Hargitay The divine drink, which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink [cocoa] permits a man to walk for the whole day without food.
Montezuma, the Aztec Emperor (c 1480- 1520)
Chocolate is a divine, celestial drink the sweat of the stars, ... divine nectar, the drink of the gods, panacea and universal medicine.
Gerome Piperni, quoted by Lavadan, the Spanish Army Surgeon, 1796
Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficient restorer of exhausted power... it is the best friend of those engaged in literary persuits.
Baron Justus von Liebig, German Chemist (1803-1873)
The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.
Jean-Antheleme Buillat-Saverin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825
The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon be given the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
Thomas Jefferson
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second, such things are not going to affect one's life, but 1932 the Mars Bar, and 1936 Maltesers, and 1937 the Kit Kat... these dates are milestones in history which should be sacred into the memory of every child in the country.
Ronald Dahl
Make a list of important things to do today. At the top of your list, put "eat chocolate". Now you'll get at least one thing done today.
Gina Hayes |
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