Have Your Cake And Eat It Too Quotes:

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

source: Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.14, University of Pennsylvania Press

topic: Cake, Two, May, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

- Aesop

topic: Wisdom, Literature, Chickens, Spanish Proverb, Italian Proverb

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

- William Camden

topic: Dog, Fun, Tricks, Early Bird, Old Dog

Two heads are better than one.

- Unknown

source: John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

topic: Teamwork, Educational, Kissing, Japanese Proverbs, Kissing And Love

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

topic: Healthy Living, Spanish And English, Spanish Proverb, Bad Apple, Dukes Of Hazzard

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Cake, Miscellaneous, Many Hands, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

- James Joyce

topic: Cake, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

Don't count your chickens before they egg.

- Ross O'Donovan

topic: Eggs, Fables, Chickens, Spanish Proverb, Italian Proverb

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

- Stan Laurel

topic: Horse, Water, Pencils, Horticulture, Old Proverb

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

- Ric Keller

topic: Thinking, Water, Old Proverb, Wise Proverbs, Proverbs Wisdom

Too many cooks spoil the broth

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.2567, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Food, Haste Makes Waste, Chinese, Spanish Proverb, Contradicting

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.

- Billy Corgan

source: "Out on a Limb". Details Magazine, October 1996.

topic: Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'

- Matt Labash

topic: Senior, Rap, Media, Liberal Media, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

You can walk away from your mistakes You can turn your back on what you do Just a little smile is all it takes And you can have your cake and eat it too. Loneliness will get to you somehow But ev'rybody loves you now.

- Billy Joel

topic: Mistake, Loneliness, Love You, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too

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

topic: Believe, Order, Cake, Have Your Cake And Eat It Too