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I trowe ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?
[1546 J. Heywood Dialogue of Proverbs ii. ix. L2]
It's what you say to people who want the best of both worlds. In most cases, you can't. You can't have everything both ways. Either you save money for retirement or you frivolously blow it all on whatever delights you. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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