Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“Maintain an active mind: alert to the possibilities and mischievous in your pursuit of them.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
“On the flip side is Woody Allen’s nebbish observation: “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible… — John Bright Copy Share Image
No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world.… — Paul Hasluck Copy Share Image
Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see,… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
“Major Eele observed Studdy clumsily thinking. He saw an opportunity to create a pleasant mischief and did so immediately.” — William Trevor Copy Share Image
I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief. — Mary Archer Copy Share Image
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.” — Daphne Athas Copy Share Image
I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief. — Francis M. Lyman Copy Share Image
To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and… — Dilys Laing Copy Share Image
“The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it",… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
