Cake Quotes - Page 2

• I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

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• My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Fitness

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• If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

  John Oates

  Happy Birthday, Song, Hair

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• I will go anywhere if you say the phrase 'there might be cake.' I would go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, register somebody else's boat in Spanish, a language I do not speak, without ID - for cake.

  Greg Behrendt

  Motor Vehicles, Phrases, Might

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• A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sarcastic, Political, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber (1838). “The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces”, p.408

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• Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

  Lady Gaga

  Jelly, Bitter

  "Lady Gaga's new album 'finished'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mind, Pieces, Recipes

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

  Nigella Lawson

  Believe, Food, Effort

  Nigella Lawson (2012). “How To Be A Domestic Goddess”, p.20, Random House

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• The real cake isn't HAVING what you want, it's DOING what you want

  Lady Gaga

  Real, Doing What You Want, Want

  Lady Gaga Facebook, www.facebook.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Pie

  "Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

  James Brown

  Looks, Sake, Goodness

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• He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Wheat, Cookery

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.737

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• You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is like a cake: have too much of it and you get sick of it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Sick, Too Much

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• 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

  Secret, Looks, Use

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• I drink diet coke so I can eat regular cake.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Coke, Drink, Diets

  Twitter post from Nov 3, 2009

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• When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

  Lisa Loeb

  Birthday, Pie, Age

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• All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you aren't harming others or the Earth, it's your choice when you decide how you want to live your life - Yours and yours alone. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ideas, Long, People

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• Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Drinking, Food

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]

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• Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

  Ethel Merman

  Hockey, Fire, Ice

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• The only way cheese is dessert is when it's followed by the word cake.

  Michele Gorman

  Way, Cheese, Dessert

  Michele Gorman (2010). “Single in the City”, p.138, Penguin UK

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• All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

  George Harrison

  Happy Birthday, Friends, Funny Birthday

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• Koolaid is goyish. All Drake's Cakes are goyish. Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes - goyish. Black cherry soda's very Jewish. Macaroons are very Jewish - very Jewish cake. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won't go near them.

  Lenny Bruce

  Fruit Salad, White, Black

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• I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.

  Phyllis Diller

  Food, Chocolate, Dirt

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• You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

  Miguel de Cervantes

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

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.59

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