
“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Source: The Book Thief
“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
Source: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
“You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!”
Source: ttfn
“5881. You can't eat your Cake, and have it too.”
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.
“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”
Variant: I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away — a man is not a piece of fruit.”
Willy
Source: Death of a Salesman (1949)
“We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People