Mischief Quotes
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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.
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I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.
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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.
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Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
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He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.
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Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.
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Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.
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Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
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If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.
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In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
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Government should have drones. Industries, companies can have drones. Everyone else doesn't need drones. It's just going to create mischief. They are going to be crashing the planes, they're going to be spying on neighbors. People don't need drones.
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What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.
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Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
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Writing is a form of mischief.
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In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking to be forgiven one more time - and then we would start all over again.
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When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
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It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
