Mark Twain Quotes

Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

When things are going good, I get nervous.

When the premiere of the show came out, we threw a big party, and, like, five minutes into the party, me and Corey walked out of the party and said... 'No one's ever gonna watch this.'

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence or peevish exclamation.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

Things always seem to end before they start

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of ‘Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).

For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.