The Best Laid Plans

The poet Robert Burns once wrote a poetic apology to a mouse for having destroyed its home. There is a popular saying that goes: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Where does that saying come from? Many attribute this to John Steinbeck's book Of Mice and Men, written in 1937. Steinbeck actually got the title from a poem by Robert Burns-To a Mouse, written in 1786. Burns ap...