Negative Form

Famous quotes containing the words negative and/or form:

“Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“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)