Famous quotes containing the words ledger and/or lines:
“Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In lifes ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.”
—Henry Miller (18911980)
“The opera isnt over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of dont count your chickens before theyre hatched. This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartletts Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)