“You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.”
Arnold Lobel book Frog and Toad Together
Source: Frog and Toad Together
“But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.”
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 14
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Doug Stanhope (1967) American stand-up comedian, actor, and author
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Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1744) : The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 2592. I can't be your Friend, and your Flatterer too.
“You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; 48 and store 's no sore.”
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
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Would you both eat your cake, and have your cake?
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)