Don't count your chickens before they hatch

'Don't count your chickens' is one of the oldest, and possibly the wisest. The thought was recorded in print by Thomas Howell in New Sonnets and pretty Pamphlets, 1570:

Counte not thy Chickens that vnhatched be,

Waye wordes as winde, till thou finde certaintee

Samuel Butler continued the pleasing rhyming in his expression of the proverbial advice, in the narrative poem Hudibras, 1664:

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd,

And count their chickens ere they're hatched.

(source)

Using it today we mean that until something is final or actually happens as predicted we shouldn't count on it.

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