“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Milkmaid and Her Pail.
“Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 55.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones." by Miguel de Cervantes?
Miguel de Cervantes178
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616Related quotes
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
Ch. 10: "Let hope predominate but be not too visionary" http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/moneygetting_chap11.html <br class="br">Art of Money Getting (1880)
“1185. Count not your Chickens before they be hatch'd.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
“Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.”
James Thurber book The Unicorn in the Garden
"The Unicorn in the Garden", The New Yorker (31 October 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter
Fred Shero (1925–1990) Former ice hockey player and coach
Jackson, Jim, Walking Together Forever: The Broad Street Bullies, Then and Now
“The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.”
David Mitchell book Ghostwritten
"Clear Island"
Ghostwritten (1999)
“To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 923
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)