Mischief Quotes

• The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Author
  • Whole
  • Seeds

• Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Diamond
  • Mischief
  • Knowest

• Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mischief
  • Malice
  • Misunderstandings

• Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.

  

  George Washington
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Communicate

• Mischief just seems to follow wherever Dennis appears, but it is the product of good intentions, misdirected helpfulness, good-hearted generosity, and, possibly, an overactive thyroid, ... The Merchant of Dennis The Menace.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Good
  • Generosity
  • Intention

• If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Rulers
  • Mischief
  • Self-Respecting

• As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • May

• To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Past
  • Draws
  • Mourn

• Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Working
  • Vanity
  • Sort

• A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

  

  Epictetus
  • Soul
  • Source
  • Conversant

• There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Life
  • Power
  • Progress

• Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Work
  • Art
  • Courses

• Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Time
  • Smoking
  • Cleaning

• Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

  

  Plato
  • Speak
  • Mischief

• So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

  

  Steve Schirripa
  • Childhood
  • Neighbor
  • Cattle

• It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

  

  William Cowper
  • Should
  • Judgment
  • Inconvenience

• Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Individual
  • Gratitude
  • Shame

• Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Balance
  • Achieve
  • Attempting

• For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Hands
  • Stills
  • Satan

• I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Politics
  • Secret
  • Duplicity

• It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

  

  George Washington
  • Children
  • Father
  • Brother

• The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs ... has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Power
  • Question
  • Mischief

• Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Fashion
  • Care
  • Mischief

• No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • God's Word
  • Calamity

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