Famous quotes containing the words world and/or lines:
“The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.”
—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)