Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they
expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
-- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap. lv
expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
-- Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap. lv
Related:
- You may as well expect pears from an elm.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.... - Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part... - And had a face like a blessing.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part i, Book ii, Chap.... - But all in good time.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.... - Delay always breeds danger.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part i, Book iv, Chap.... - Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.... - Good wits jump;
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.... - I shall be as secret as the grave.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap.... - This peck of troubles.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part ii, Book iv, Chap....
