These milk quotes will inspire you. Milk is an opaque white fluid rich in fat and protein, secreted by female mammals for the nourishment of their young.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging milk quotes, milk sayings, and milk proverbs.
Famous Milk Quotes
- “Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.” ~ W. C. Fields
- “He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.” ~ James M. Barrie
- “If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.” ~ Lalu Prasad Yadav
- “Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.” ~ Steve Largent
- “There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” ~ Woody Allen
- “Don’t cry over spilled milk” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “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
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“Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.” ~ John Mortimer
- “I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “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
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“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?” ~ Sophocles
- “Cheese is milk’s leap towards immortality.” ~ Clifton Fadiman
- “A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.” ~ Arthur Koestler
- “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
- “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
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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
- “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
- “Condensed milk is wonderful. I don’t see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.” ~ Fred Allen
- “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
- “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
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“For a single woman, preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.” ~ Elayne Boosler
- “Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau’s example.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “I’ve never met a general yet who could milk a cow.” ~ Lennart Meri
- “Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.” ~ John Ciardi
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“My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.” ~ Karl Malden
- “Coffee in England is just toasted milk.” ~ Christopher Fry
- “Milk Duds kept me going.” ~ Nora Dunn
- “I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it’s hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere” ~ Charlie Hunnam
- “Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milkshakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.” ~ Kate Smith
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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
- “Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” ~ Woody Guthrie
- “I won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “We don’t have milk cows. People have so many stereotypes of people from where I come from – Oklahoma. We don’t ride around in covered wagons, either.” ~ Carrie Underwood , Cow milk quotes
- “When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother’s milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.” ~ Marvin Harris
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“Get off your horse and drink your milk.” ~ John Wayne
- “It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.” ~ Georg Brandes
- “It’s a dog-eat-dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk-Bone.” ~ Bobby Heenan
- “You can only milk a cow so long, then you’re left holding the pail.” ~ Hank Aaron
- “I’d rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What’s the good of living if you can’t have the things that give a little enjoyment?” ~ Jack LaLanne
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“North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?” ~ Bobby Heenan
- “Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “If a cow walked into this room, I’d probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.” ~ Stuart Appleby
- “I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.” ~ Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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“Shakespeare is like mother’s milk to me.” ~ John Lithgow
- “Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don’t realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.” ~ Jack LaLanne
- “My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there’s a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.” ~ Sarah Zettel
- “Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.” ~ Alberta Hunter
- “I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.” ~ Larry King
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“Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.” ~ Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
- “Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.” ~ James Joyce
- “My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don’t have sex – ever. Now that the milk is free, we’ve both become lactose intolerant.” ~ Margaret Cho
- “Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.” ~ John Stuart Blackie
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“The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.” ~ Ogden Nash
- “I’m saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won’t let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brain workers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.” ~ George Orwell
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“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “A little child born yesterday A thing on mother’s milk and kisses fed.” ~ Homer
- “In Hollywood, a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.” ~ Rita Rudner
Milk to milk something or someone is to get as much from that thing or person as possible.
