By Larry LeMasters
When I was a boy, I was clumsy, so I more than once knocked over my milk glass. When this happened, my mother, Opal, would quickly smile and say, “Don’t cry over spilt milk.” I was too young then to care where the saying came from, but adult curiosity has shown me James Howell, British historian and writer, first used this saying in Paramoigraphy in 1659.