Mischief Quotes · Page 3

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

— Saadi

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

— Horace

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

— William Shakespeare

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

— Washington Irving

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

— Ivan Panin

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

— James Madison

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

— Andrew Jackson

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

— Kobe Bryant

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

— Guy Maddin

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

— Herman Melville

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

— Benjamin Franklin

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

— Catherynne M. Valente

The people who crucified Jesus were not able to see his godliness at all; they could only see the mischief in him.

— Rajneesh

When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians…

— Camille Paglia

The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches…

— Baron de Montesquieu

I was invited by a publisher to write the text for Tantra.[1] Having done some research, what fascinated me was the evidence…

— Indra Sinha

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by…

— John Locke

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and…

— Ben Jonson

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe,…

— Benjamin Franklin

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot…

— Bible

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions…

— Akhenaton

When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us,…

— Charles Spurgeon

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the…

— George Washington

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great…

— Edmund Burke

In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was…

— Emilie Schindler

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther…

— John Milton

Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he…

— Gore Vidal

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done…

— Benjamin Rush

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that…

— William Shakespeare

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

— Isaac Newton

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

— Marshall McLuhan

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

— Ben Jonson

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

— Samuel Johnson

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

— John Denham

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

— Christopher Marlowe

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

— Edmund Burke