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Jul. 26th, 2004 11:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziI was just in a discussion in which someone repeated the same phrase a number of times. The phrase in question is a common one, but it's one that I've thought silly for a long time. It was 'You can't have your cake and eat it, too.' That's always struck me as a stupid thing to say. After all, why the heck else would I want the cake? To impress my friends with my cake-ownership? To set out on display? '...but it's not for eatin, it's just for lookin through...' (bonus points to whoever can name the movie that line's from)
Anyway. It just seems like there are a lot of phrases like that, such as 'You've made your bed, now you have to lie in it' Seems to me that that's kind of the point behind making your bed. I'd think it'd be less desireable to have rumpled sheets. I can't recall right off what sayings like this are called. I'm pretty sure they're not aphorisms. Whatever they are, I'm curious as to the origins of a lot of them.
Anyway. It just seems like there are a lot of phrases like that, such as 'You've made your bed, now you have to lie in it' Seems to me that that's kind of the point behind making your bed. I'd think it'd be less desireable to have rumpled sheets. I can't recall right off what sayings like this are called. I'm pretty sure they're not aphorisms. Whatever they are, I'm curious as to the origins of a lot of them.