“You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; 48 and store 's no sore.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
When asked, "What would constitute 'complete happiness' to Doug Stanhope (you)?" Doug Stanhope interview http://markprindle.com/stanhope-i.htm, MarkPrindle.com, 2007 <br class="br">Miscellaneous
“You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; 48 and store 's no sore.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
“Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Would you both eat your cake, and have your cake?
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
“You can have your cake and eat it, too.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay
“5881. You can't eat your Cake, and have it too.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
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.
Robert Kuttner (1943) American journalist
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 14
Patrick Rothfuss (1973) American fantasy writer
Concerning Cake, Bilbo Baggins and Charity. (19 January 2014) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2014/01/concerning-cake-bilbo-baggins-and-charity/ <br class="br">Official site
“Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.”
Dean Koontz book Life Expectancy
Source: Life Expectancy (2004), Chapter 39; Tock family saying
Ian Holloway (1963) English association football player and manager
On Tony Pulis's style of management. Mirror Football, 10 December 2010 <br class="br"> Holloway uses bizarre cake analogy for Pulis' Stoke style, Mirror Football, 2010-12-11, Jeremy, Butler, 2010-12-10 http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Stoke-v-Blackpool-Ian-Holloway-blasts-critics-of-Tony-Pulis-style-by-using-a-bizarre-cake-analogy-article648761.html, <br class="br">Sourced quotes
“There's nothing better than cake but more cake.”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)