“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Milkmaid and Her Pail.
“The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.”
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)
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 55.
“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)
“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
“The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.”
David Mitchell book Ghostwritten
"Clear Island"
Ghostwritten (1999)
James Callaghan (1912–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
"Mr Callaghan renews plea for 5% pay guideline", The Times, 6 September 1978, p. 4.
Speech at the Trades Union Congress, 5 September 1978. Callaghan was teasing the audience about the date for the impending general election. Although his message was intended to convey that he may not call an election in October, many people interpreted him as saying that the opposition would be caught unprepared by an October election.
Callaghan deliberately misattributed the music hall song "Waiting at the Church" to Marie Lloyd rather than to its real singer, Vesta Victoria, knowing that Vesta Victoria was too obscure for the audience to recognise.
George Sarton (1884–1956) American historian of science
Preface.
A History of Science Vol.2 Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. (1959)
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)