PLAN

Related Subjects: Method, Order, Policy, System

1. Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it.—Bible, Luke 14: 28
   

2. All human plans and projects come to naught.—BROWNING, The Ring and the Book
   

3. The best laid schemes o' mice and men
   Gang aft a-gley;
   An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain,
   For promis'd joy.—BURNS, To a Mouse (Source of title of novel by John
   Steinbeck)
   

4. I should rather walk the sidewalk in front of a man's office for two hours before an interview, than step into his office without a perfectly clear idea of what I am going to say and what he—from my knowledge of his interest and motives—is likely to answer.—DEAN DONHAM
   

5. Make a model before thou buildest.—Proverb
   

6. It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

7. When we mean to build,
   We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
   And when we see the figure of the house,
   Then must we rate the cost of the erection.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV