Make not your sauce till you have caught the fish. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- When the word is out it belongs to another.
- The world is full of fools.
- Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
- It takes two to make a bargain.
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep.
- After us the deluge.
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred Wise men cannot pull out.
- Fools make feasts, and Wise men eat them.
- It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.
- Better the foot slip than the tongue.
- Fools rush in where angles fear to tread.
- A word and a stone let go cannot be called back.
- He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
- Empty vessels make the greatest sound.
- Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
- A great head and a little wit.
- If you sing before breakfast, you'll cry before night.
- If an ass goes a travelling, he'll not come home a horse.
- Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.
- If the beard were all, the goat might preach.
- A fool will laugh when he is drowning.
- The brains don't lie in the beard.
- The head grey, and no brains yet.
- Send not a cat for lard.
- He that sends a fool means to follow him.
- A grey head is often placed on green shoulders.
- Sweet appears sour when we pay.
- If all fools wore feathers we should seem a flock of geese.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
French
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Ne criez pas „des moules" avant qu'elles ne soient au bord.
Don't shout "mussels" until they've reached the edge.
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Il ne faut pas mettre le lièvre en sauce avant de l'avoir attrapé.
Don't put the hare in sauce before you've caught it.
German
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Ungefangene Fische sind nicht gut zu Tische.
Uncaught fish are not good to table.
Czech
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Zajíc v lese, a on rožeň strouže.
A hare in the woods, and he is cutting down a spit.