
“The little man on the wedding cake.”
Describing Thomas E. Dewey, Harry S. Truman's Republican opponent, as quoted in The Washington Post (22 May 1951); also attributed to Walter Winchell.
“The little man on the wedding cake.”
Describing Thomas E. Dewey, Harry S. Truman's Republican opponent, as quoted in The Washington Post (22 May 1951); also attributed to Walter Winchell.
“She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.”
Quoted by her step-daughter Violet in The Listener, June 11, 1953.
Of Lady Desborough.
“I've been away from Hollywood so long, I feel like a spider on a wedding cake.”
On the set of Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), as quoted in "Rambling Reporter" by Mike Connolly, Hollywood Reporter (December 10, 1958), p. 2
“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
“Doubt not a woman's hardihood; no danger is too great for wedded love to face.”
Crede vigori
femineo. Castum haud superat labor ullus amorem.
Book III, lines 112–113
Punica
Arabian Society In The Middle Ages, by Edward William Lane, (1883) citing Nowwájee, En-, Shems-ed-deen Moḥammad (died 1454), Ḥalbet El-Kumeyt, at footnote 167.
Latter day attributions
“[A] great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.”
"Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One"; The Public Advertiser (September 11, 1773).
1770s