Top 68 Best Laid Quotes
#1. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.
Ruskin Bond
#2. These what-if equations have kept her life static since adolescence. And if life proves one thing, it's that the best laid plans don't necessarily lead to the best results.
Nick Alexander
#3. The best laid plans take 40 years to complete.
Robert Burns
#4. But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Still you are blest, compared with me!
Robert Burns
#5. 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
#6. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin your best laid plans.
Tina Fey
#7. I came to understand that we do not change gradually, peacefully, over time, but that we undergo sudden upheavals that overthrow our best-laid plans, change our character and redesign the shape of our life, all in the matter of moments.
Catherine Delors
#8. 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
#10. Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.
Michael Anthony
#11. The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
Jean De La Fontaine
#12. The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.
Jon Stewart
#13. 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
#14. The best laid plans may not get you laid the way you planned.
Susan Block
#15. We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)
Kristina Riggle
#16. Powers rise and fall. Leaders come and go. History makes a mockery of our best-laid plans, in the end, you aare left with thosecthings you have shared with one another
Kirsten Beyer
#17. Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.
Terence McKenna
#18. Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!
Leslie W.P. Garland
#19. The devil fools with the best laid plans.
Neil Young
#20. I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin all your best-laid plans.
Tina Fey
#21. When things go awry, if they are mostly an inconvenience to you or a threat to your ego, instead of getting furious, can you laugh?
Sometimes the even the best-laid plans, the most carefully planned events can turn out quite differently than planned.
James Martin
#23. The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.
Robert Burns
#24. I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.
Brent Spiner
#25. The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
Robert Burns
#26. 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
#27. They say the best laid plans often go a lie, Because no matter how detailed the preparation, A plan will always have a weak point and there will always be those looking to exploit it. To do into the plan failure and the perpetrator along with it.
Emily Thorne
#28. Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#29. Lao Yang told him that sixty, like sixteen, was the best time in life, an age where the burdens of one's forties and fifties had been laid down, but the slowdown and illness of the seventies and eighties had not yet arrived.
Liu Cixin
#30. When a girl gets laid, she tells her best friend. When a girl finds a lump, she tells her best friend. When a girl finds a kickass shade of nail polish, she tells her best friend. And, I might add, when a girl gets kidnapped, she tells her best friend!
Kristen Ashley
#31. Carefully laid plans aren't always the best. Sometimes Plan B is the real dream come true.
S.J.D. Peterson
#32. We used to believe that memories were best retrieved in the same place that they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore.
Karen Joy Fowler
#33. The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.
Allen Ginsberg
#34. Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.
Michael Chabon
#35. The best gig in the world is a packed bar on a Friday night. Reason: Everybody gets paid and everybody wants to get laid. Any band that can't go over on a Friday night should be shot.
Cub Koda
#36. Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
#37. You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.
Charles Williams
#38. I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.
Jeb Bush
#39. Sometimes it's best not to see your whole path laid out before you. Let life surprise you ... There are more stars out there than just the ones with names. And they're all beautiful.
Clare Vanderpool
#40. That's life" said the philosopher each time he was almost laid prostrate, "It's often our best friends who make us fall
Victor Hugo
#41. Our life's dance is not painted for us in footsteps on the floor. It's not laid out so we know where to place our next step. We simply had to judge which steps best fit the rhythms that we hear."
Paul Marshall
#42. At such times we are certainly not at our best but we are undeniably at our most human - utterly vulnerable, naked and laid open, a mess. Whenever
Tim Kreider
#43. And he was not angry. But, before the pain set in, he had the time to be rueful. He had laid everything out, the best of himself, and it had not been enough. He had considered himself a bohemian, but she had proved too bohemian for him. And he had failed to understand her explanation of herself.
Julian Barnes
#44. A good sister is one who won't be embarrassed when you burst into tears in public. A better one will hand you tissues until you stop. The best is the one who will go get you another latte to go with the ginormous chocolate orgy she's already laid in front of you.
Megan Hart
#45. We used to believe that memories are best retrieved in the same place where they were first laid down. Like everything else we think we know, that's not so clear anymore. But
Karen Joy Fowler
#46. Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
Ville Valo
#47. Wager: It's good to see you smiling.
Connor: There's not a whole hell of a lot to smile about. Some freak of nature attacked me today, my best friend has run off with the key, and I need to get laid.
Sylvia Day
#48. This"-his gaze roamed the room-"is the life were given, and we lived it. As best as we could, we lived it. But this"-He laid his hand over Aaron's chest and smiled.-"This is the life we made, and it's perfect.
Kary Rader
#49. We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
Susan Collins
#50. Jack was unexpectedly moved when he swore allegiance to the king and country. He had served both for years, could easily have laid down his life. Yet it was different to pledge his loyalty and best efforts toward governing this nation. Dying was easier than making good laws.
Mary Jo Putney
#51. Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Star of the east the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Reginald Heber
#53. We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.
Bruce Springsteen
#54. Well, I looked my demons in the eyes
laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me.
You see, I've been to hell and back so many times,
I must admit you kind of bore me.
Ray Lamontagne
#55. Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone ...
Phyllis Bottome
#56. I hit Damian Fuller with a left hook that left him laid out for 30-45 minutes. They brought oxygen to him, they couldn't wake him up, he was out cold. The television station kept having to take breaks, he was out so long. It was unbelievable. That was the best one-shot I've ever done in my life.
Diego Corrales
#57. Jnana, bhakti, yoga and karma - these are the four paths which lead to spiritual freedom. One must follow the path for which one is best suited. But in this age, special stress should be laid on karma yoga.
Swami Vivekananda
#58. Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot.
Hugh Hefner
#59. Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.
Patrick Carman
#60. Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.
John Sculley
#61. He didn't want to have to be the Gay Best Friend providing life lessons for liberal straight people. He just wanted to get laid.
FayJay
#62. At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.
Steven J. Lawson
#63. Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy, she'll beat you if she's able.
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.
Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table,
But you only want the one that you can't get.
Eagles
#64. I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. When homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.
Bill Maher
#65. Brunetti's best friend had often said that he wanted death to take him just at the moment he laid his last lira down on a bar and said, 'Prosecco for everyone.
Donna Leon
#66. 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
#67. What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.
Paul Kalanithi
#68. Getting laid off was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But it led to the best results.
Tom Smallwood
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