Candy & Chocolate Quotations
Few topics inspire such enthusiasm as candy & chocolate.
We have compiled a few of our favorites, most entertaining, quotations which we hope you enjoy.
Gerald Prince & Jon Prince Owners of McKeesport Candy Co.
CANDY
Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
Ogden Nash “Reflections on Ice Breaking”
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never
tried taking candy from a baby.
Unknown
CANDY STORE
"I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners'
shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre
of
jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruitdrops -- red,
green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the
pleasure they promised me."
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French Existentialist, writer
CHEWING GUM
"Chewing gum! A new and superior preparation of Spruce Gum."
October
25, 1850, Chicago Daily Democrat: advertisement for the first commercial
chewing gum
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money
for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
“Presidential candidates don't chew gum.”
Theodore C. Sorensen
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
CHOCOLATE
"...which they use as money, and is produced on a moderately sized
tree that flourishes only in very warm and shady localities.....The fruit
is like
almonds,
lying in a shell resembling a gourd in size. It ripens in a year, and being
plucked when the season has arrived, they pick out the kernels and lay
them on the mats to dry; then when thy wish for the beverage, they roast
them
in an earthen pan over the fire, and grind them with the stones which they
use for preparing bread [metate]. Finally, they put the paste into cups
. . . and mixing it gradually with water, some times adding a little of their
spice, they drink it, though it seems more suited for pigs than men. I
was
upwards of a year in that country without ever being induced to taste this
beverage, and when I passed through a tribe, if an Indian wished occasionally
to give me some, he was very much surprised to see me refuse it and went
away laughing. But subsequently, wine failing, and unwilling to drink nothing
but water, I did as others did. The flavor is somewhat bitter, but it satisfies
and refreshes the body without intoxicating: the Indians esteem it above
everything, wherever they are accustomed to it."
Girolamo Benzoni, describing cocoa beans.
History of the New World (1565)
I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.
John Belushi
As with most fine things,
chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use
to determine whether it is the correct time to order
chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U
is the proper time for chocolate.
Sandra Boynton
Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals’ likes
chocolate.
Sandra
Boynton
"If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical
pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been
spent asleep;
if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air
too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand;
if
he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought:
if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint
of amber-flavored chocolate....and marvels will be performed."
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826)
"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
Truman Capote
"Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before
him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa,
and
of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden
cups.....I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled
with foaming chocolate of which he took some....."
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, member of Cortez's force, describing a meal
of emperor Montezuma (1519)
After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface
of that one [what women want]. And I think the answer lies somewhere between
conversation and chocolate.
Mel Gibson
Life is like a box of chocolates...
you never know what you're gonna get.
Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
"What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of
chocolate..."
Katherine Hepburn
"Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing."
Milton Snavely Hershey (1857-1945) Established Hershey Chocolate Co
1903.
Self-discipline implies some unpleasant things to me, including
staying away from chocolate and keeping my hands out of women's pants.
Oleg
Kiselev
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces 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 (NBC
Today Show Host)
"There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who love chocolate,
and communists."
Leslie Moak Murray in ‘Murray's Law’ comic strip
"What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead."
George Bernard Shaw (British playwright and critic)
"Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate."
Claudia Schiffer
My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates
which is, for sure, better than sex.
Alicia Silverstone
"If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive
you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear,
how will you ever manage?"
Marquise de Sévigné (French writer and lady of fashion)
"Ten years ago taffy cut up into various shapes, and variously flavored,
was the favorite. Then gum drops couldn't be made fast enough to meet the
call. Dealers began putting brandy and cordials into them, and with that
the demand fell off, and the gum drop furore was killed. At one time New
York women would scarcely eat any confectionery but cream-stuffed dates.
Then fig paste had a run of about two years. Chocolate creams and chocolate
caramels have had a long run, and promise to have an enduring demand, but
new fashions may start up at any time."
anonymous, The Candy Maker (1878)
"the damnable agent of necromancers and sorcerers. It is well to abstain
from chocolate in order to avoid the familiarity and company of a nation
so suspected
of sorcery (Spain)."
French cleric (1620)
"We heard one evening, under the eye of the imperturbable Paul, a foreign
lady ask for a milk chocolate drink to accompany a fillet of sole Cubat,
the chefs specialty. Sacrilege! Just as well that Marcel Proust and Boni
de Castellane were not here to see that."
Simon Arbellot de Vacqueur, French journalist (1897-1965)
"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (1888-1935)
"Forget love... I'd rather fall in chocolate!"
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