Quotes About The Best Laid Plans

#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. 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

#5. 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

#6. The best-laid plans of women and wolves...

Dominique Goodall

#7. Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.

Michael Anthony

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

Jon Stewart

#9. The best laid plans may not get you laid the way you planned.

Susan Block

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Robert Burns

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

Brent Spiner

#15. 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

#16. The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Neil Young

#17. 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

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

Terence McKenna

#19. 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

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

Jim Rohn

#21. There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Charles De Lint

#22. You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

Charles Williams

#23. She laid her heart and soul right in your hands
And you stole her every dream and crushed her plans
She never even knew she had a choice
And that's what happens when the only voice she hears is telling her she can't
You stupid boy

Keith Urban

#24. Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, "You shot the ambassador?"
"You gave me the gun," protested Sounis.
"I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it!" Eugenides told him.
"Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray," murmured the magus.
"You shut up!" said Gen, laughing.

Megan Whalen Turner

#25. Fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.

Mark Batterson

#26. 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

#27. Children and Jimmy Carter ruin your best laid plans.

Tina Fey

#28. That was something people had. Normal people. Episodes. And then they laid cool cloths over their eyes and made plans to spend time near the sea.

Rainbow Rowell

#29. 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

#30. Carefully laid plans aren't always the best. Sometimes Plan B is the real dream come true.

S.J.D. Peterson

#31. However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

Hideki Tojo

#32. One word more, a final caution: Do not forget whom to fear at the last. I have had to be content with killing and torment; but now my plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall not rest until I have eradicated hope from the Earth. Think on that, and be dismayed!

Stephen R. Donaldson

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Robert Burns

#36. Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#37. 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

#38. Love ... it complicates our games, old friend, it insinuates itself, disrupting the most carefully laid plans and unmanning the most disciplined heart.

Juliet Marillier