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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


"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


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


Some people cry over spilt milk. There are a lot of people who will cry before the milk is spilt and some cry harder if it does not spill. ~Harry C. Milholland, 1935


Instead of crying over spilt milk, an opportunist lets the cat out of the bag. ~20,000 Quips & Quotes, compiled by Evan Esar, 1968


I'm a breastfeeding mom — of course I cry over spilled milk. ~Kristi Cortina, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, TikTok video, 2024, @kristicortinaibclc, everydropcountslactation.com


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, peanuts.com  [In other words, that's the way the cookie crumbles. —tg]


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


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


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 –tg]


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


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


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 –tg]


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 –tg]

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