
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
The Milkmaid and Her Pail.
"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
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
The Milkmaid and Her Pail.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 55.
Ch. 10: "Let hope predominate but be not too visionary" http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/moneygetting_chap11.html
Art of Money Getting (1880)
“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
“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”
Old Age
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
2018
Source: * Янукович у Москві поскаржився на бідність ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjqkefINDM ** en ** 2022-06-12
“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”