“To A Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough” is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, John Steinbeck took the title of his 1937 novel Of Mice and Men from a line contained in the second-to-last stanza: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley” (often paraphrased in English as “The best-laid plans of mice and men / Go oft awry”).
http://www.robertburns.org/works/75.shtml
Edcole1961 over 15 years ago
They were supposed to start with Robert Burns, but their best laid plans went awry.
D-i-c-e-R over 15 years ago
“To A Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough” is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, John Steinbeck took the title of his 1937 novel Of Mice and Men from a line contained in the second-to-last stanza: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley” (often paraphrased in English as “The best-laid plans of mice and men / Go oft awry”). http://www.robertburns.org/works/75.shtml