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“Don't Cry Over Spilt...” Quotations
Really, if we are not to cry over spilt milk, what are we to cry over? ~F. W. Boreham, "Spilt Milk," A Reel of Rainbow, 1920
It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. ~W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915
Never cry over spilt milk — it could've been whiskey. ~Maverick, 1950s
Don't cry over spilt burrito — that's why they invented forks. ~Chipotle Mexican Grill, wrapper liner, 2017
I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day. ~Terri Guillemets, "Splat!," 2004
"Oh, well," mused the young doctor, "it's too late to cry over spilt coffee — or an unwise decision." ~D. J. Corrigan, 1950
No use crying over spilt tea... ~“How the James Ho Yang American Laundry Invented The Most Important Shirt Color Since White,” The New Yorker, 1925
We try to keep a stiff upper lip, to remember not to cry over spilt beer. ~Stephen Morris, The Great Beer Trek, 1984
No blubbering over spilt wine. ~Harvey Peake, 1914
And as we recall the past, as we remember our former selves, and compare what we are with what we were, if we see some changes for which we are thankful, we also see much which inspires regret; and as the years pass, and the inevitable changes ensue, we are too apt to waste time in crying over spilt water and trying to gather it up again. "I am not the man I was," is sooner or later the language of most men... ~Samuel Cox, "Don't Cry Over Spilt Water," in The Sunday Magazine, 1870
Don't cry over spilled milkmen! No need to cry over anyone who might be injured on your property or by you or your family, if you have The Fidelity & Casualty Company's Family Legal Liability policy. ~Advertisement, in The Saturday Evening Post, 1946
Girl: Mrs. Olsen, there's a problem in the cafeteria.
Mrs. Olsen: Well, no use crying over spilt milk.
Girl: It didn't exactly get spilled.
Mrs. Olsen: It's just an expression.
Girl: It more, like, came out of Avi's nose. And people are more, like, cheering.
~Jef Mallett, Frazz, 2009
Instead of crying over spilt milk, an opportunist lets the cat out of the bag. ~20,000 Quips & Quotes, compiled by Evan Esar, 1968
Lucy: Do you mind if I dunk my chocolate cookie in your milk... Oops! It broke…
Linus: AAUGH! Look what you've done! Look at my milk! I can't drink this… it's sludge!!
Lucy: Don't get so upset.
Linus: What do you mean, don't get so upset?!
Lucy: Never cry over sludged milk!
~Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, 1968 [In other words, that's the way the cookie crumbles.
If you must cry over spilt milk, condense it. ~20,000 Quips & Quotes, compiled by Evan Esar, 1968
PHILOSOPHER One who instead of crying over spilt milk consoles himself with the thought that it was over four-fifths water. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904
Don't grieve too much after SPILT MILK. Better pick up your pail and milking stool and go for the next cow. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague
Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~The Andy Griffith Show, 1960s
Very high wind — lightning — clouds hurrying over the sky, like spilt milk blown out of the pail — altogether very poetical. ~Lord Byron, journal, 1821 [a little altered
And what if many well-meant endeavors have come to nought? Let us not spend our time crying over the spilt milk of human kindness. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "The Difficulties of the Peace-Makers," The Pardoner's Wallet, 1905
He passed a puzzled hand over his brow and began weeping — but not over spilt wine. He had forgotten such things. He was weeping over the astonishing beauty of the world. 'Stars,' he said, looking upwards and blinking. He held out his hand as if expecting the starlight to rain softly into it. ~Jack Lindsay, "Greek Meets Greek," 1936
...that day — when you laughed over spilt milk,
When I cried over spilt wine...
~John Hollander (1929–2013), "Last Summer"
You all had better make up your minds to enjoy what you have instead of standing there crying over spilt coffee. ~Amy E. Blanchard, "Kettle and Cattle," In Camp With the Muskoday Camp Fire Girls, 1917
A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat. ~Evan Esar
It is no use now a-cryin' over spilt milk;
What can't be cured, must be endured.
~Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville, Third Series, 1840 [poeticized
It was said by one hon. Gentleman last night that it was of no use crying over spilt milk, and certainly the observation was a just one so far as regarded the milk already spilt. But if by crying one could prevent other milk from being spilt in future, then the crying might be a very useful process. ~Baillie Cochrane, 1873
It is no use to grieve over milk that has been drunk. ~Arthur Milton, "Fatima and the Calf," 1893
No weeping for shed milk. ~English proverb, quoted by James Howell, 1659
Take thou no sorrow of the thing lost which may not be recovered. ~Aesop, translated by William Caxton, 1484 [spelling modernized
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