“You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs”
Dutch Proverb
“Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.”
Walter Benjamin
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Don't count your chickens before they are hatched”
Proverb
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
Aesop
“BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying.”
Ambrose Bierce
