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Quotes of the Day for 2 November 2003 - Cake

Marie Antonia Habsburg-Lotharingen was born at Vienna on this day in 1755, youngest of the sixteen children of Francis I, Emperor of Austria and Maria Theresa, Empress of Hungary and Bohemia. Her marriage was arranged at an early age, she grew up knowing she would be Queen of France. As a foreigner during troubled times in France, she was distrusted and widely despised, and was the focus of all manner of untrue rumors. She and the king (Louis XVI) actually attempted to make economic reforms, angering the nobility at the same time they won no affection from the peasantry. It is pretty much certain that she never said "Let them eat cake," but that's today's theme because it is so closely associated with her. Incidentally, that quotation is not just sloppy current history, she was accused of having said it before she lost her head.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
     - Aesop

Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life.
     - Antoinette Bosco

[In a big family] the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.
     - Antonin Scalia

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
     - George Harrison, 1943 - 2001

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.
     - Miguel de Cervantes, 1547 - 1616

The cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake.
     - Alfred Hitchcock, 1899 - 1980

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