
“1185. Count not your Chickens before they be hatch'd.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Canto III, line 923
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
“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.
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)
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), Slow Train