It is no use crying over spilt milk. 
Factum fieri infectum non potest.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- There is a time for all things.
- First come, first served.
- Better late than never.
- Time is money.
- All in good time.
- Now is now and then was then.
- Strike while the iron is hot.
- Time and tide wait for no man.
- Christmas comes but once a year.
- Let bygones be bygones.
- After death the doctor.
- It is easy to be Wise after the event.
- What is done cannot be undone.
- Time is the best healer.
- After a storm comes a calm.
- Every day is not Sunday.
- It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.
- It is too late to call back yesterday.
- Times change and we with them.
- A wonder lasts but nine days.
- Marry your son when you Will, your daughter when you can.
- Must I tell you a tale and find your ears too?
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Factum fieri infectum non potest.
It cannot be made wet.
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Factum infectum fieri nequit.
It cannot be made wet.
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Quae facta sunt, non possunt mutari.
What has been done cannot be changed.
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Quod periit, periit.
What is lost is lost.
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In praeteritum subvenire ne dii quidem possunt.
Not even the gods can come to the past.
French
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Mal passé n'est que songe.
A bad past is just a dream.
German
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Was vorbei ist, ist vorbei.
What's past is past.
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Futsch ist futsch und hin ist hin.
Gone is gone and gone is gone.
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Wer alte Suppe aufrührt, den holt der Kuckuck.
He who stirs up old soup, the cuckoo takes him.
Czech
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Co se stalo, stalo se.
What's done is done.
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Co je pryč, je pryč.
What's gone is gone.
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Co bylo, bylo.
What's done is done.
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Čeho nelze předělati, darmo na to žehrati.
What cannot be remade, it is free to repent of it.
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Nač plakat nad rozlitým mlékem.
Why cry over spilt milk.
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Co se stalo, odestáti se nemůže.
What has happened cannot be stopped.