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Jetée · 08-19-2008, 06:35 AM

The urbandictionary sums it up quite nicely:

This phrase is easier to understand if it is read as "You can't eat your cake, and have it too". Obviously once you've eaten your cake, you won't have it any more. Used for expressing the impossibility of having something both ways, if those two ways conflict.
He works so hard to pay for that fancy house of his that he never has any time to stay home and enjoy it.

Yeah, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

In my own words:

A cake might be nice to look at, but you are faced with the decision of either being in awe of the creation or devouring it, thus tarnishing the beauty of it. It states that you cannot have everything you might want in life.

08-19-2008, 06:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	The urbandictionary sums it up quite nicely: This phrase is easier to understand if it is read as "You can't eat your cake, and have it too". Obviously once you've eaten your cake, you won't have it any more. Used for expressing the impossibility of having something both ways, if those two ways conflict. He works so hard to pay for that fancy house of his that he never has any time to stay home and enjoy it. Yeah, you can't have your cake and eat it too. In my own words: A cake might be nice to look at, but you are faced with the decision of either being in awe of the creation or devouring it, thus tarnishing the beauty of it. It states that you cannot have everything you might want in life. __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi Last edited by Jetée; 08-19-2008 at 06:39 AM..