Ordinary Lines

Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or lines:

“Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“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)