A Quote by Aesop

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Aesop

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Aesop
Greek - Author
620 BC - 564 BC

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

If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.

Bobby Robson

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

Miguel de Cervantes

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Jay Baruchel

I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.

Eric Kripke

Don't count your chickens before they egg.

Ross O'Donovan

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

P. T. Barnum

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

Christian McKay

Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

James Thurber

Sometimes people count their chickens before they hatch.

Paul Walker

You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.

Ian Holloway

Not everything that counts can be counted. You can count sales. You can count fans and followers. You can count pins and tweets. But you can't count passion. You can't count commitment. You can't count engagement. You can't count relationships.

John Kremer

How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people.

George Carlin

I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.