“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Milkmaid and Her Pail.
“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”
Letter from Paris (May 1900)
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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.
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 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)
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter
“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
“Chad Dawson will run like a chicken”
Glen Johnson (1969) jamaican boxer
http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=22789
