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• Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none. -- William Shakespeare
• Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy.
  How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are?...
• Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? -- John Heywood
• Some months ago I saw a man breaking a loaf of whole-wheat bread and tossing the pieces at pigeons.
  I was curious and I asked him, "Why whole-wheat bread?...
• My cake is dough. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Taming of the Shrew -- Act v, Sc. 1
• The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), All 's Well that Ends Well -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise
  And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly...
• Would yee both eat your cake and have your cake? -- John Heywood (c.
  1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. ix...