Sweets And Desserts Quotes

• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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  Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Thanksgiving, Food, Zucchini

  Jim Davis (2012). “Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His 6th Book”, p.4, Ballantine Group

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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

  Barbara Johnson

  Food, Weight Loss, Dessert First

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.

  Lora Brody

  Yummy, Feelings, Chocolate

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• Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Food, Humor

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• Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

  Judith Viorst

  Inspirational, Strength, Food

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• After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

  Emily Luchetti

  Halloween, Food, Army

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• Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

  Don Kardong

  Sports, Food, Inspiration

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• We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

  David Mamet

  Stress, Food, Pie

  David Mamet (2010). “Boston Marriage”, p.34, Knopf Group E-Books

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• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

  Graham Kerr

  Food, Dessert First, Perfect

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• 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

  Funny, Marijuana, Two

  "The hard shell" by Richard Johnson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2006.

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• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Acceptance

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Love, Halloween, Food

  "Poems of Fernando Pessoa".

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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  E. W. Howe

  War, Food, Hero

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• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

  Eugene Field

  Food, Blessed, Night

  'Apple Pie and Cheese'

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• I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

  John Gould

  Children, Food, Thinking

  John Gould (2015). “The House That Jacob Built”, p.124, Down East Books

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• After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

  Mel Gibson

  Funny, Inspiring, Anniversary

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• There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

  John Steinbeck

  Football, Two, People

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• 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.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Air

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.121, Vintage

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• My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Sex, Coffee, Chocolate

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• We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ice Cream, House, Dessert

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.133, Рипол Классик

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• Don't cry over spilt milk.

  Aesop

  Regret, Dessert First, Milk

  "The Milkmaid and Her Pail". Fable by Aesop published in "Aesop's Fables For Children", 1919.

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• There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

  Bobby Heenan

  Easter, Yummy, Cycling

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• The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

  Terry Moore

  Food, Yummy, Chocolate

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