Point Count

Famous quotes containing the words point and/or count:

“I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)

“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)