Frontal attacks on properly held entrenchments were doomed to fail.
Source: The Civil War - James M. McPherson (page 200 bottom of the page)
Harvey Mackay said, "Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan."
Yep.... Just that the phrase doesn't really make sense, you can't not plan (fail to plan) and plan to fail, i mean, what he hell
win then
Grants plan was to give Lee's army 25,000 meals.
you should have a comma after "plan" and "fail" should have an "s" at the end. Irony FAIL!
True. You can succeed without a plan, but with a prepared mind.
Sam tan
why did they drop-a-crop plan fail
Because if you fail to plan, you plan to fail...
I believe the quote is actually "If you fail to prepare then you are preparing to fail" and it would be Benjamin Franklin.
plan to fail , or fail to plan. u choose
For example: You plan to not study for a final exam and therefore plan to fail the exam you really didn't succeed at planning, did you? in the end you didn't really plan anything at all making your plan a failure.