->"''Any time a character begins a flashback or story with 'the plan was simple,' you immediately know it won't end well. The plan is always simple.''"
-->-- '''[[@/{{Noxshade}} Noxshade]]'''

->''The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men \\
Gang aft agley'' [[note]]Often go wrong.[[/note]]
-->--'''Creator/RobertBurns''', 'To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough'

->'''Zoe:''' Captain'll come up with a plan.\\
'''Kaylee:''' That's good, right?\\
'''Zoe:''' Possibly you're not recalling some of the Captain's previous plans.
-->-- ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

->''"I wanted it to go smooth. Why don't it ever go ''smooth''?"''
-->-- '''Malcolm Reynolds''', ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

->''"What you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."''
-->-- '''Jayne''' (to Mal), ''{{Film/Serenity}}''

->''"Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been compromised."''
-->-- '''Sam Starfall''', ''{{Webcomic/Freefall}}''

->''"There are only four rules you need to remember: Make the plan. Execute the plan. Expect the plan to go off the rails. Throw away the plan."''
-->-- '''Captain Cold''', ''Series/TheFlash2014''

->''"How come everything we get into starts off simple and ends up real complicated?"''
-->-- '''Niko Bellic''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''

->''"Nothing is simpler than to kill a man. The difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences."''
-->--'''Literature/NeroWolfe'''

->''"Hermione, when have any of our plans ever actually worked? We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose."''
-->--'''Franchise/HarryPotter''', ''[[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2]]''

->''"One... Mission... I CAME HERE FOR JUST ONE! MISSION! AND I HAVE BEEN STUCK HERE FOR ALMOST'' '''''TEN YEARS'''''!
-->-- '''Mechakara''', ''Webvideo/AtopTheFourthWall''

->'''Yolanda:''' When she's in the backyard, I'll sneak in her room and wear her clothes. I'll tell my mother I'm Mindy and say you made a pass at me.\\
'''Todd:''' OK, this sounds a little complicated, but I think I can handle exactly this amount of complication. As long as things don't become ''one bit'' more complicated...
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman''

->'''Ziva:''' What did you think would happen?!\\
'''Tony:''' I didn't know! The flaw in the plan... was the plan.
-->-- ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', "[[Recap/NCISS06E14 Love & War]]"

->'''Geralt:''' Something went wrong.\\
'''Dandelion:''' So you've heard everything? I hope you're not mad, you can't be... My plan was perfect... until we put it in motion.
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt''

->''Making plans, the kind that go awry\\
Got a full life-time supply''
-->-- ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', "We Live in A Dump"

-> ''"No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength"''
-->-- '''Moltke the Elder'''
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