Best Laid Plans Quotes

• The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Planning, Mice

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• Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

  Terence McKenna

  Roving, Able, Chaos

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• The devil fools with the best laid plans.

  Neil Young

  Evil, Fool, Devil

  Song: Alabama, Album: Harvest

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• Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

  Jim Rohn

  Riches, Wealth, Fingers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 29, 2016

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• Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

  Phil McGraw

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

  Robert Burns

  Change, Men, Planning

  "To a Mouse" l. 39 (1786) See Dickens 67; Disraeli 7; Modern Proverbs 102; Orwell 17; Plautus 3; Proverbs 2; Sayings 25

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• I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

  J. K. Rowling

  Luck, Chance, Deathly Hallows

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.17, Pottermore

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• Gather up your telegrams
  Your faded pictures, best laid plans
  Books and postcards, 45's
  Every sunset in the sky
  Carry with you maps and string, flashlights
  Friends who make you sing
  And stars to help you find your place
  Music, hope and amazing grace
  Maybe what we leave
  Is nothing but a tangled little mystery
  Maybe what we take
  Is nothing that has ever had a name

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Music, Stars, Book

  Song: Your Life Story, Album: The Calling

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• Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Stars, Grace, Maps

  Song: Your Life Story, Album: The Calling

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• I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

  Brent Spiner

  Trying, Etc, Plans

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• The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.

  Robert Burns

  Years, Plans

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• But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

  Robert Burns

  Art, Pain, Philosophical

  Robert Burns (2009). “The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns”, p.48, Princeton University Press

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• The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

  Jon Stewart

  Cutting, Wind, Comedian

  "Jon Stewart Puts His Slant on Daily Show News" by Terry Jackson, The Charleston Gazette, jon.happyjoyfun.net. January 09, 1999.

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• Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Life Sucks, Hate Life, Born

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• You know, the best-laid plans of mice and men... I like playing bad guys, and I don't have a problem doing that. They're interesting characters, and there's as many different kinds of bad guys as there are good guys - they're rich, they're strong, they're powerful, and so that's fine with me.

  Tobin Bell

  Strong, Powerful, Character

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• Yeah, but going by that cold tone of voice, she had to wonder whether the best-laid plans of mice and vampires, blah, blah, blah...

  J.R. Ward

  Voice, Vampire, Tone

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Lover Unleashed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.44, Penguin

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