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Quotes of the Day for 16 May 2005 - Cake

On this day in 1770, Archduchess Antonia of Austria, age 14, married a shy, fat, dimwitted boy of 15 named Louis. Of course, Louis would become King Louis XVI in time. On the occasion of her marriage, Antonia took the French name we remember her by: Marie Antoinette. Hating their foreign queen, the French made her the scapegoat of all that was wrong with France, and the one comment that most of us remember her for is one that she probably never spoke. But as she's not here to defend herself, today's theme is Cake.

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

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

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

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
     - Paul Sweeney

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future.
     - Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant, and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

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