One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

reality planning

About Ashleigh Brilliant

Portrait of Ashleigh Brilliant

Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant (December 9, 1933 – September 24, 2025) was a British and American epigrammatist and cartoonist. He was best known for his "Pot-Shots", single-panel illustrations with one-line humorous remarks, which began syndication in the United States in 1975.

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Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?

—Ashleigh Brilliant

Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

More quotations tagged with “planning”

We don't always plan what happens in our life. Sometimes things just unravel.

—Scott Hildreth in Finding Parker

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

—Thomas Paine

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

—Publilius Syrus

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

—Napoleon Hill

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