"The 12-step chocoholics program:
Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!"
-Terry Moore

"There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate."
-Linda Grayson, The Pickwick Papers

"Forget love: I'd rather fall in chocolate!"

"This guy found a bottle on the ocean, and he opened it and out popped a genie, and he gave him three wishes. The guy wished for a million dollars, and poof! there was a million dollars. Then he wished for a convertible, and poof! there was a convertible. And then, he wished he could be irresistible to all women... poof! he turned into a box of chocolates."

"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

"Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate."

"I don't understand why so many so-called 'chocolate lovers' complain about the calories in chocolate, when all true chocoholics know that it is a vegetable. It comes from the cocoa bean, and beans are veggies. 'Nuff said."

"Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food."
-Michael Levine, nutrition researcher, as quoted in The Emperor's of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

"I could give up chocolate, but I'm not a quitter."

"In the beginning, the Lord created chocolate, and He saw that it was good. Then He separated the light from the dark, and it was better."

"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

"If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated."
 
"Put 'eat chocolate' at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done."

"Man cannot live on chocolate alone; but woman sure can."

"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, August 22, 2004