“The little man on the wedding cake.”
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980) American writer and prominent socialite
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.”
Margot Asquith (1864–1945) Anglo-Scottish socialite, author and wit
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.”
Shelley Winters (1920–2006) actress
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.”
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter
“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
Galén (129–216) Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher
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.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …
"Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One"; The Public Advertiser (September 11, 1773).
1770s
