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

Robert Burns
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft...
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft...
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft...
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft...
About This Quote

The best laid schemes often go awry. The best laid plans for the future often do not turn out as we had expected. This quote is a rather grim one and warns against making plans and having them come to fruition. There is a great deal of truth to this saying.

Plans and schemes don’t always turn out as we expect them to. We see this in our daily lives, when things don’t work out the way they were supposed to. However, there are times when our plans work perfectly and go exactly as we had hoped for them to do so.

On the other hand, there are times when our plans fail miserably and all of our careful planning has come to naught.

Source: Collected Poems Of Robert Burns

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