Spilt Milk Quotes

• Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

  W. C. Fields

  May, Milk, Cry

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  I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Cows, Next, Milk

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Tears

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• Don't cry over spilt milk.

  Aesop

  Regret, Dessert First, Milk

  "The Milkmaid and Her Pail". Fable by Aesop published in "Aesop's Fables For Children", 1919.

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• It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Use, Milk, Cry

  "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham, (Ch. 68), 1915.

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• No use crying over spilled milk.

  Francesca Marciano

  Use, Milk, Cry

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• Don't cry over spilled milk

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving On, Yogurt, Milk

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• You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got...

  David Miliband

  Hate, Live Life, Yield

  "David Miliband: politics for the pinched generation". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2012.

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• It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

  Ben Chifley

  Wisdom, Australia, Bail

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• A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

  Evan Esar

  Cat, Milk, Cry

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• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  Ted Turner

  Moving, Mean, Milk

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• When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

  Kingsley Amis

  Jobs, Hangover, Sadness

  "Distilled Kingsley: The late, great author - and prodigious drinker - gives his advice on beating a hangover" by Kingsley Amis, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 26, 2008.

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• Mix your drinks, and it's best not to cry over spilt milk, but put it back in the bottle.

  Pete Doherty

  Bottles, Milk, Cry

  "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

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• Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill.” - Wally

  Scott Adams

  Thinking, Office, Mind

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• There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.

  John Wyndham

  War, Ocean, Will To Survive

  John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett

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• In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Equality, Thinking

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