“The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.”
"Clear Island"
Ghostwritten (1999)
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“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)
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Milkmaid and Her Pail.
“For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken.”
Jacek Tylicki (1951) American artist
Commentary on the 1987 project entitled "Chicken & Art", cited in: Leszek Brogowski. "Jacek Tylicki and the new ethos of Art," in Projekt Visual Art Magazine, nr. 202-203, 1995
“And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.”
Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“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)
“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
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.
“You don't count the dead When God's on your side”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), With God On Our Side
Variant: You never ask questions When God's on your side