Let them eat cake. (Traditional but wrong attribution; the remark, perhaps apocryphal, was attributed to others much earlier.)
Cake Quotes
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st. (comparing Winston Churchill to a cake)
We cannot set aside an hour for discussion with our children and hope that it will be a time of deep encounter. The special moments of intimacy are more likely to happen while baking a cake together, or playing hide and seek, or just sitting in the waiting room of the orthodontist.
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumor, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake, And the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake. (“Casey at the Bat”)
Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.
