“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.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
The Milkmaid and Her Pail.
(I.3) Del Rey, p. 75
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
“For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken.”
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.”
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.”
Canto III, line 923
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
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”
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