Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or opera:
“Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
—Charles James Fox (17491806)
“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)