Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik Ibsen

Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.
Gwen Ifill

Don't just count your years, make your years count.
George Meredith

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
Knute Rockne

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
Kathe Kollwitz

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
Eduard Shevardnadze

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Thomas Traherne

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.
Alexander Kluge

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
Gary Oldman

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
Kevin J. Anderson

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.
Martin Sheen

I can conduct better than I count.
Eugene Ormandy

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.
Chuck Mangione

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
Benjamin Bratt

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
Josef Albers