Final Count

Famous quotes containing the words final and/or count:

“With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“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)