Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As dust thrown against the wind, mischief is blown back in the face of the fool who wrongs the pure and harmless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly. — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
“Being full of mischief, they love to listen; they gladly obey, for they like to betray you, pretending to be sent from… — Goethe Copy Share Image
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner. — Hesiod Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James Copy Share Image
The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world. — Edwin Paxton Hood Copy Share Image
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
