A Quote by James Joyce

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

James Joyce

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Cake Cannot Eat Your

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James Joyce
Irish - Novelist
February 2, 1882 - January 13, 1941

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? This is commonly misquotes as You can't have you're cake and eat it, too.

John Heywood

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet in your underwear drawer?

Marian Keyes

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

Miguel de Cervantes

Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.

Hillary Clinton

I ask you, what is the use of having your "cake" if you can't eat it? What exactly are you supposed to do with it? Put it on your mantel and look at it? Cake is meant to be eaten and enjoyed.

T. Harv Eker

You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.

Zygmunt Bauman

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake

Derren Brown

A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.

Metro Boomin

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

John Heywood

You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

Paula Deen

I walk, and I play tennis, but mainly I watch what I eat. I eat all the things that I love, including cake. Cake is very important to me. But it's all about the size of the slice!

Mary Berry

But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.

Robert Kuttner

Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a little piece." Poor people don't believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have "nothing."

T. Harv Eker

If someone wants to order a cake, I might say, 'OK, when do you want to eat it? What time are your guests arriving? 6 P.M.? So you might be done with dinner around 8:30? Fine, you can pick up the cake at 4. Any earlier than that, it won't be good, it won't be fresh.'

Sherry Yard

I'm doing something with Kris Jenner's cookbook. We'e going to do a whole week of my favourite stuff because everybody knows I love to eat. Her lemon cake is so insane. I hate lemon and when I go to her house I eat lemon cake. There's nothing better.