Hour Lines

Famous quotes containing the words hour and/or lines:

“A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.

A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)