His milk boiled over. [ Proverb ]
The trickling rain doth fall
Upon us one and all;
The south-wind kisses
The saucy milk-maid's cheek.
The nun's, demure and meek,
Nor any misses. [ E. C. Stedman ]
Milk says to wine, Welcome, friend.
[ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,
There is healing in the bitter cup. [ Southey ]
Adversity's sweet milk - philosophy. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
If you would live for ever,
You must wash the milk off your liver. [ Proverb ]
I cannot sell the cow and drink her milk. [ Proverb ]
Had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell.
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth. [ William Shakespeare ]
If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. [ Proverb ]
His folded flock secure, the shepherd home
Hies merry-hearted; and by turns relieves
The ruddy milk-maid of her brimming pail;
The beauty whom perhaps his witless heart.
Unknowing what the joy-mixed anguish means,
Sincerely loves, by that best language shown
Of cordial glances, and obliging deeds. [ Thomson ]
You cannot sell the cow and have her milk too. [ Proverb ]
Bent over her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew. [ John Langhorne ]
The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]
The wanton lawns, more soft and white than milk. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Your mamma's milk is scarce out of your nose yet. [ Proverb ]
The milk-white lilies that lean from the fragrant hedge. [ Alice Cary ]
My cow gives a good mess of milk, and then kicks it down. [ Proverb ]
Love and trust are the only mother-milk of any man's soul. [ John Ruskin ]
A mother's tenderness and caresses are the milk of the heart. [ Mlle. de Guerin ]
Who would keep a cow, when he may have a quart of milk for a penny? [ Proverb ]
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness. [ William Shakespeare ]
Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt. [ Stephen Colbert ]
To one it is the mighty heavenly goddess; to another it is an excellent cow that furnishes him with milk. [ Schiller ]
You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child's head; you must break it up, and give him the crumb in warm milk. [ Spurgeon ]
The highest conceptions of the sages, who, in order to arrive at them, had to live many days, have become the milk for babes. [ Ballanche ]