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The best laid schemes of mice and menMeaningThe most carefully prepared plans may go wrong. Origin
The poem is of course the source for the title of John Steinbeck's 1937 novel - Of Mice and Men. See also: the List of Proverbs. Phrasefinder is also on
Tudor Phrases and Sayings - a book on the meanings and origins of the phrases and sayings that Shakespeare and Henry VIII used that we use still use every day. |
From
Robert Burns' poem To a Mouse, 1786. It tells of how he, while ploughing a field,
upturned a mouse's nest. The resulting poem is an apology to the mouse:
