Reform Opera

Famous quotes containing the words reform and/or opera:

“Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“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)