The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. From Wordnik.com. [The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry] Reference
Even the best-laid plans will not be a miracle cure. From Wordnik.com. [Wondering Who Will Lead the Recovery] Reference
Economies could collapse despite the best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [The Audacity of Hope]
NGUYEN: And a town turns on a mayor's best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2007] Reference
"So many of the best-laid plans," the dragon chuckled. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Thorbardin]
"You know how it is, the best-laid plans and all that.". From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Well, the best-laid plans of mice and egomaniacal gasbags. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Puff's Revenge] Reference
Of course, all the best-laid plans go astray, as they say. From Wordnik.com. [Is Your Education Useless?] Reference
But in news, the best-laid plans, frankly, often fall apart. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2009] Reference
Indeed, the best-laid plans can fail at an event of this scale. From Wordnik.com. [Party Politics: An Impresario] Reference
How small a thing will upset the best-laid plans of hospitality!. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
Everything, in short, was going according to the best-laid plan. From Wordnik.com. [Martin's Frontline Folly] Reference
Without such involvement, even the best-laid plans will go awry. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Out of Iraq] Reference
Of course, even the best-laid plans often go awry on election day. From Wordnik.com. [Pulling Off Houdini's Trick] Reference
Everyone knows in theory what can go wrong with the best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [What I Learned From Jack Welch] Reference
Afghanistan has an uncanny ability to spoil anybody's best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [John Feffer: Afghanistan: NATO's Graveyard?] Reference
In the Middle East, the best-laid plans are most often for endless war. From Wordnik.com. [Best-Laid Plans] Reference
Just one unpredictable factor, weather, can derail the best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [The Madness of Estimating Crowds !and Commodes] Reference
Marital confidences might well upset the best-laid plans I could devise. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
But history shows the best-laid plans don't always work out as intended. From Wordnik.com. [Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation] Reference
But the best-laid plans can still be circumvented by accident or chance. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
The trouble with life was that it always interrupted our best-laid fantasies. From Wordnik.com. [Changeling]
Furthermore, natural or manmade disasters can thwart even the best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of Approval] Reference
Even the best-laid strategy can be thrown off by turbulent economic conditions. From Wordnik.com. [The Merits of Having a Plan B] Reference
Mother Nature doesn't seem to be cooperating with the best-laid plans, does she?. From Wordnik.com. [Bethpage Black's Green Thumb] Reference
Jeanne Moos looks at what happens when the best-laid political plans come undone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2008] Reference
Even the best-laid driveway can develop cracks, potholes, or depressions over time. From Wordnik.com. [International Builders' Show Product Preview: Sakrete U.S. Cold Patch] Reference
Such a curious thing, utterly unforeseeable, had made the best-laid scheme go agley. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
So many things are dictated by the gods, who may intervene in even the best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
The best-laid plans for all of our characters might be very different than we think they are. From Wordnik.com. [Bones: Booth Has Moved On — But Is It for Good?] Reference
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Even the best-laid travel plans can hit a roadblock here or there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 26, 2001] Reference
BEIJING -- One of the marketing world's best-laid plans limped out of the Bird's Nest on Monday. From Wordnik.com. [A New Hurdle for Marketers] Reference
But the best-laid plans, as we all have doubtless learned by experience, are not always dependable. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
But the best-laid plans of Ivy League academics and charismatic young presidents frequently go awry (see: Vietnam). From Wordnik.com. [The Recession Is Over] Reference
The cow herding squads will herd their cows, minimising the sacred animals 'potential to snarl up even the best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [Delhi battling human and financial cost of hosting Commonwealth Games] Reference
This will no doubt be welcomed with cheers at the White House, where the best-laid spending plans have failed to stimulate. From Wordnik.com. [QE 2] Reference
As the right knows from experience, public unrest can scotch the best-laid plans — even absent a vibrant Socialist opposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Grande Plan] Reference
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs joked this week that it only takes one call from the Situation Room to spoil the best-laid plans. From Wordnik.com. [Obama On 5-State Barnstorming And Fundraising Trip] Reference
As a result, Argentina's best-laid economic plans have consistently been wrecked by what Goretti calls this "ancient political reality.". From Wordnik.com. [Please Send More Money] Reference
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