Fat Beats

Famous quotes containing the words fat and/or beats:

“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)

“When a rat crosses a street, everyone shouts and beats it.”
—Chinese proverb.