plans quotes

It's a man's jobno place for women's plans here!what lies outside. Stay home and cause no trouble.

-Aeschylus
Septem contra Thebas, l.200^1 (translated by C M Dawson).

Die sch o« nsten Pl a« ne sind schon zuschanden geworden durch die Kleinlichkeit von denen, wo sie ausfu«  hren sollten, denn die Kaiser selber k o« nnen ja nix machen. The finest plans have always been spoiled by the pettiness of those who should carry them out. Even emperors cannot do it all by themselves.

- Bertolt Eugen Friedrich Brecht
  Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ('Mother Courage and her Children'), sc.6.

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them and relieving the human estate, they become moral; they become part of the apparatus of moral inquiry or science† When the consciousness of science is fully impregnated with the consciousness of human value, the greatest dualism which now weighs humanity down, the split between the material, the mechanical and the scientific and the moral and ideal will be destroyed.

-John Dewey
  Reconstruction in Philosophy.

   When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Sergeant's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act 2.

We for a certaintyare not the first Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  Last Poems, no.9.

Here lies a prince whose intentions were pure, but who had the misfortune to see all his plans collapse.

-Joseph II
Epitaph for himself. Quoted in T C  W Blanning Joseph II (1994), p.1.

Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowlyand surely drew their plans against us.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  TheWar of theWorlds, bk.1, ch.1.