"The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age."

Next Quote

[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.

— Plato