 | 1905 - 498 pages
...to the land of gold. Chicago, "the Garden City," was to be my Ultima Thule, my firm abiding place, but "The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley/' Two months later I was plodding my weary pilgrim way through southern Minnesota, "spying out the land"... | |
 | Champ Clark - 1920 - 530 pages
...a log cabin with a loose board-loft, so common in that day among the poorer folks. It seemed easy, but The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley. So it was in this case. It so happened that on the night of the murder her little granddaughter, some... | |
 | 1924 - 406 pages
...that unless the bootblack has the liberty of so doing both will fall into the ditch." NORMAN ANGELL ' The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley, And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy." ROBERT BURNS. A great city is that which has... | |
 | 1925 - 224 pages
...again for the Straits of Dover, but on the voyage a Frenchman espied her and compassed her spoliation, but "the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley," as in this instance, and before many hours both prize and privateer were captured by an English frigate,... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Clarke - 1927 - 474 pages
...sleety dribble And cranreuch cauld! But, Mousie, thou are no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, Still thou art blest, compared wi' me! The present only toucheth... | |
 | Warren Nevin Drum - 1928 - 354 pages
...the vocation is a temporary one in which they will engage only for five or ten years at the most ; but "the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley," and thousands of women whose original hopes failed of realization are prospective beneficiaries of the... | |
 | Frederic W. Robinson - 1928 - 96 pages
...Dolphin came, no Nereid stirred, Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard — A favourite has no friend ! (d) The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. (e) Milton ! thou shouldst be living at this hour... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1972 - 1564 pages
...development policy In the last half of the Nineteenth •ad Cíe first naif of the Twentieth Century. But "the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley." The agricultural research and education policies and programs, which «ere designed to make rural life... | |
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The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy. 
