A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The world is round, so if you do something bad you had better duck. — Aaliyah Hurley Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief. — Mandell Creighton Copy Share Image
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur.… — Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Copy Share Image
Some are "industrious," and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Government should have drones. Industries, companies can have drones. Everyone else doesn't need drones. It's just going to create mischief. They are… — Gary B Smith Copy Share Image
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everybody has asked the question, ... 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning.… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended,… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
“The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect for sailing toy boats, for skipping… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In today's youth, morals and manners are replaced by money and mischiefs.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.” — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.” — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
