Milk Quotes

• Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

  Curtis Grant

  Ideas, People, Acting

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• I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

  Phyllis Diller

  Food, Three, Comedy

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• He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

  James M. Barrie

  Kindness, Littles, Helping

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• If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Fall, Sick, Cows

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• Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.

  Steve Largent

  Issues, Likes, Sometimes

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• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

  Speech on radio, 21 Mar. 1943, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 7, p. 6761

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• I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Thankful

  "Positive Words, Powerful Results". Book by Hal Urban (p. 105), 2004.

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• Don't cry over spilled milk

  Benjamin Franklin

  Moving On, Yogurt, Cry

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

  W. C. Fields

  May, Cry, Has Beens

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• Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Philosophy, Adversity

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 54

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• Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strong, Animal, Humanity

  Journal, 11 Nov. 1850

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• The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

  John Mortimer

  Writing, Yogurt, Modern

  "Accidental barrister who wielded his wit to share life's big joke" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2009.

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• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Play, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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• If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Animal, Islam, Camels

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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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• Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Cheesy, Cheese, Immortality

  Any Number Can Play (1957) p. 105

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• A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

  Arthur Koestler

  Writing, Bars, Cows

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

  Barbara Jordan

  Food, Anger, Thinking

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• There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.

  Gary Snyder

  Coffee, Dirty, Beer

  Gary Snyder, “There Are Those Who Love To Get Dirty”

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• You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

  John F. Kennedy

  Water, Voting, Towers

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• You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

  Gautama Buddha

  Respect, Oil, Water

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• Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

  Fred Allen

  Food, Cooking, Littles

  Fred Allen (2008). “Much Ado About Me”, p.200, Wildside Press LLC

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• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Nature, Kindness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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• Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

  George Iles

  Education, Science, People

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place.

  Isaac Newton

  Writing, Beer, Illustration

  Sir Isaac Newton (1959). “Correspondence: 1676-1687”

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