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.
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Letter from Paris, (May 1900).Oscar Wilde
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
Miguel de Cervantes
Count not your Chickens before they be hatch'd.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.Samuel (poet Butler
The commentators have fixed the month for me, they have chosen the date and the day. But I advise them: "Don't count your chickens before they are hatched." Remember what happened to Marie Lloyd. She fixed the day and the date, and she told us what happened. As far as I remember it went like this: 'There was I, waiting at the church–' (laughter). Perhaps you recall how it went on. 'All at once he sent me round a note. Here's the very note. This is what he wrote: "Can't get away to marry you today, my wife won't let me."' Now let me just make clear that I have promised nobody that I shall be at the altar in October? Nobody at all.
James Callaghan
Wilde, Oscar
Wildeblood, Peter
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