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

“Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)”

Francesca Marciano (1955) Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and writer

“Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing.”

Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) English children's writer

“Let us cry for the, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.”

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832–1895) Mexican-American writer

“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 (1966) British chef, writer and TV presenter

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

“I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.”

Scott Westerfeld book Uglies

“Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.”

Salman Rushdie book The Satanic Verses

“I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?”

Katherine Paterson (1932) American children's writer born and mainly raised in China