A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from October 24, 2012
“Life is like a box of chocolates,  the best ones are half-eaten”

The movie Forrest Gump (1994) contained the famous line:
 
“My momma always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.’”
 
There have been many variations on this line. “Life is like a box of chocolates,  the best ones are half-eaten” has been cited in print since at least 2000.
 
 
Wikiquote: Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 film starring Tom Hanks about a mentally challenged man’s epic journey through life, meeting historical figures, influencing popular culture, and experiencing first-hand historical incidents while largely unaware of their significance.
 
Forrest Gump
My momma always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”’
. Note: ranked #40 in the American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
   
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Life is like a box of chocolates, the best ones are half eaten!!
   
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Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you’re going to get. ~ Forrest Gump in “Forrest Gump” (1994)
 
If life is like a box of chocolates, then its time for me to buy another box, I seemed to have already devoured all the good ones!
 
Life is like a box of chocolates, the best ones are half eaten!!
 
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Alex April 13, 2008 11:23 PM
Life is like a box of chocolates, the best ones are half eaten!!
 
The Chocolate Dictionary
May 17, 2012
CHOCISM
A simile in which life, or an aspect of life, is compared to a box of chocolates. The best known chocism comes from the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, which states: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get”. Since then, journalists, commentators and bloggers have all come up with interesting and amusing variations of their own:
 
. The pessimistic: “Life is like a box of chocolates, the best ones are half-eaten”; or: “Life is like a box of chocolates, I must have grabbed the wrong damn box”.
. The anti-romantic: “Men are like chocolates, you never know when you’re going to get a nut”.

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