
“You can have your cake and eat it, too.”
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay
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 can have your cake and eat it, too.”
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 14
“You cannot eat your cake and have your cake; 48 and store 's no sore.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 43.
“Why have a cake if I can't eat it?”
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
When asked, "What would constitute 'complete happiness' to Doug Stanhope (you)?" Doug Stanhope interview http://markprindle.com/stanhope-i.htm, MarkPrindle.com, 2007
Miscellaneous
“You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal. The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost. (translator Thornton)”
Non tibi illud apparere, si sumas, potest, nisi tu immortale rere esse argentum tibi. Sero atque stulte, prius quod cautum oportuit, postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat.
Trinummus, Act II, scene 4, lines 12
Trinummus (The Three Coins)
“Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?”
Would you both eat your cake, and have your cake?
Part II, chapter 9.
Proverbs (1546)
"Out on a Limb." Details Magazine. October 1996.
Concerning Cake, Bilbo Baggins and Charity. (19 January 2014) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2014/01/concerning-cake-bilbo-baggins-and-charity/
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Everybody Loves You Now
Song lyrics, Cold Spring Harbor (1971)