To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
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Canto III, line 923.Samuel(poetButler
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Count not your Chickens before they be hatch'd.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
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.
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
In Malta, catch a swallow,
For all of the guilty — to set them free.
Wings fill the window,
And they beat and bleed.
They hold the sky on the other side
Of borderlines.Kate Bush
Butler, Samuel (poet, 1612-1680)
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