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Dessert is pure sweetness

• That’s what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world. Sarah Strohmeyer
• Losing weight,  Food cravings,  Temptation,  Losing weight

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Sure, dessert can make you put on weight …

• I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. Jason Love
• Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. Jason Love
• Among life’s mysteries is how a two-pound box of chocolate can make a person gain five pounds.
• There’s a thin person inside of me screaming to get out, but I keep her sedated with chocolate.
• I’m not overweight, just chocolate enriched.
• A little chocolate is like a love affair – an occasional sweet release that lightens the spirit. A lot of chocolate is like marriage – it seems so good at first but before you know it you’ve got chunky hips and a waddle-walk. Linda Solegato

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… but dessert also brings happiness

• Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work. Robert Brault
• Ice cream is happiness condensed. Jessi Lane Adams
• You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.
• Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behaviour by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate! Elaine Sherman
• Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension. Peter Rogers
• Happiness,  Pleasure

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Dessert can make you a better person and the world a better place

• Sometimes, eating a thick slice of chocolate fudge cake with ice cream makes you a better person. Dr. SunWolf
• Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. Don Kardong

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Dessert makes problems go away

• I’ve never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn’t fix. Sarah Ockler

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Dessert in moderation is good

• I eat as much as the next girl, but I work my butt of in the gym every morning! The key is moderation. I splurge on the weekend. A big bowl of pasta and a delicious slice of cake for dessert are my favourites. Giuliana Rancic
• Moderation,  Balance

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Dessert in excess is also wonderful

• Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. Judith Olney
• Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two. Alain Ducasse, Chef
• Excess

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There is always room for dessert

• If the only way we judged hunger was how full the stomach is, no one would ever have dessert. Mark Friedman

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Make out with dessert

• What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody’s business; especially where desert toppin’s involved. Tanya Huff
• For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we’d eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we’d save some of the dessert and play with it while making out. Karen McDougal

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Meat is good but dessert is better

• It’s nice to eat a good hunk of beef but you want a light dessert, too. Arthur Fiedler
• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.   C. Forbes

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A perfect dessert is like a perfect woman

• 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 flavour that lasts.  Graham Kerr

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Making a good dessert is an art

• The dessert crowns the dinner. To create a fine dessert, one has to combine the skills of a confectioner, a decorator, a painter, an architect, an ice-cream manufacturer, a sculptor, and a florist. The splendour of such creations appeals above all to the eye – the real gourmand admires them without touching them! Eugene Briffault
• Art

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Dessert is a meal’s final impression

• It’s the finale. It’s the last impression. A bad dessert can ruin the meal. Anne McManus
• Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.  William Powell

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Dessert should close a meal gently

• Dessert should close the meal gently and not in a pyrotechnic blaze of glory. No cultivated feeder, already well fed, thanks his host for confronting him with a dessert so elaborate that not to eat it is simply rude – like refusing to watch one’s host blow up Bloomingdale’s. Alan Koehler (‘Madison Avenue Cook Book’)

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Dessert is best served with cheese

• The magnificence of the dessert should not allow one to forget the cheese. Cheese complements a good dinner and supplements a bad one. Eugene Briffault
• A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• There is no good formal dinner without a dessert of patisserie and preserves. The idea of a dinner finishing with the cheese course would be, for me, so incongruous that it would never even cross my mind!  Lahana Denis

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Try new desserts

• May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years… Rob Brezsny

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The joys of ice-cream

• I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. Heywood Broun
• Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. Don Kardong
• Wearing a condom is like eating an ice-cream cone with a sock on your tongue. Mark Gungor
• Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. Jim Fiebig
• Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.  Voltaire
• Ice cream is happiness condensed. Jessi Lane Adams
• We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I don’t cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day. Terri Guillemets
• Ice cream cravings are not to be taken lightly. Betsy Cañas Garmon
• Never trust a skinny ice cream man. Ben Cohen
• Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can’t fit you into my schedule right now. Uniek Swain
• When I’m not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg
• Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream. Charles Baxter
• If I could lick the sunset, I’ll bet it would taste like Neapolitan ice cream. Jarod Kintz
• If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly. Sandra Byrd, Bon Appetit
• Why does ice cream go with a broken heart?” Kylie asked. “because if you eat enough of it, it freezes the heart and numbs the pain for a bit”, Holiday answered. C. Hunter
• … everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward. Brandon Sanderson
• I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container. Bill Bryson
• To explain responsibility to advertising men is like trying to convince an eight-year-old that sexual intercourse is more fun than a chocolate ice cream cone. Howard Luck Gossage
• Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows. Jim Bishop
• Being married means I can [break wind] and eat ice cream in bed. Brad Pitt
• You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.

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The joys of fudge

• Fudge is a noun, a verb, an interjection, and delicious! Terri Guillemets
• Sometimes, eating a thick slice of chocolate fudge cake with ice cream makes you a better person. Dr. SunWolf
• Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.  Judith Olney
• Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.  Judith Olney

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The joys of pie

• 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. W. Howe
• If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan
• You can say this for ready-mixes – the next generation isn’t going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. Earl Wilson
• I don’t 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
• ..it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.  Kevin James, Mall Cop
• There’s no diet list I’ll follow that would rule out cherry pie. Edgar A. Guest
• We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. David Mamet
• lmost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform – everything except Pie. George Augustus Sala
• The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie. Henry Ward Beecher
• 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
• Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. Jane Austen
• I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans. J. Perelman
• The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple- tart. Robert Louis Stevenson
• O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close your eyes and wish you might live forever in the wideness of that rich moment. Richard Llewellyn

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The joys of chocolate

• Money talks. Chocolate sings!
• Chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.
• Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate. Jo Brand
• Coffee and chocolate—the inventor of mocha should be sainted. Cherise
• Chocolate symbolizes, as does no other food, luxury, comfort, sensuality, gratification, and love. Karl
• Chocolate makes everyone smile-even bankers. Benneville Strohecker, chocolatier
• Chocolate

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The joys of cookies

• Cookies are made of butter and love. Norwegian Proverb
• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

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The joys of cake

• He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”  Michael Pollan
• I love you like a fat kid loves cake! Scott Adams
• Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. Audrey Hepburn
• Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favourites you want to reread. Ellen Rose
• The most dangerous food is wedding cake. James Thurber
• A party without cake is just a meeting. Julia Child
• Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size. Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow
• Here’s a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don’t get me wrong. I like sex . . . a lot. But it’s never going to replace cake. Janet Evanovich, Eleven on Top
• If I was made of cake I’d eat myself before somebody else could. Emma Donoghue, Room
• Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy! JoyBell C.
• To buy a cake… to howl at the moon… to know true happiness… I am happy. JoyBell C.

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Dessert makes a great life metaphor …

• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. That’s my philosophy. Thornton Wilder
• Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.  Ernestine Ulmer
• Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work. Robert Brault
• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.   C. Forbes
• While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert. Wayne Dyer
• I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not. Erica Bauermeister
• Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.  Johann G. Hamann
• Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. Woody Allen
• Love is the cake under the icing. The immature lick it clean and throw the rest away; adults scrape off the top and eat it dry. Bauvard
• We don’t want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. Geneen Roth
• Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvellous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.  Jimmy Dean
• Metaphors to live by

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… and a good metaphor for marriage

• Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.
• Getting married is like permanently grafting your hand to the cookie jar. No matter how sweet those cookies may taste, you can’t help but wonder what would have happened if you’d chosen some other dessert–brownies, for instance … or frozen yogurt … or maybe chocolate strudel. Jerome P.
• A little chocolate is like a love affair – an occasional sweet release that lightens the spirit. A lot of chocolate is like marriage – it seems so good at first but before you know it you’ve got chunky hips and a waddle-walk. Linda Solegato
• Marriage

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Seize the moment and eat dessert now

• Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.  Ernestine Ulmer
• Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.  Erma Bombeck
• I like to eat my dessert first. Life is short, you never know if you will get to the dessert. D.Percy
• Seize the moment. Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, ‘No, thank you,’ to dessert that night. And for what!  Erma Bombeck
• Life is short. Eat dessert first. Jacques Torres
• I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, ‘I wish I could have dessert.’ I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first. Ryan Kwanten
• …stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along.  Robert J. Hastings, Tinyburg Tales
• Life is like an ice cream. Enjoy it before it melts.
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• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
• Apple: Nutritious lunchtime dessert which children will trade for cupcakes.
• Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. Ambrose Bierce
• Dessert doesn’t count if you eat under an assumed identity. Valerie Harper
• Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table. William Powell
• I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian! Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
• I’m not fat. I’m pregnant with ice-cream’s baby!
• Life is uncertain – eat dessert first.  Ernestine Ulmer
• Plump lady to the waitress: I’d like Death by Chocolate for dessert, but only enough to put me in critical condition.
• STRESSED is just DESSERTS spelled backward.
• Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can’t fit you into my schedule right now. Uniek Swain
• Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.  Jim Davis
• Wearing a condom is like eating an ice-cream cone with a sock on your tongue. Mark Gungor
• What do ghosts serve for dessert? I Scream.
• Food (funny quotes)

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