Mischief Quotes
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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
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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
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To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
William Shakespeare
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
William Shakespeare
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
William Cowper
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
George Washington
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Isaac Watts
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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
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And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.
William Shakespeare
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
Diogenes
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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
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Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
Andrew Michael Ramsay
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He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.
William Camden
