There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase… — Vernon Lee 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
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard… — Albert Gallatin 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create. — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Despite being quite a shy kid, I was in my element with my mates. I definitely wasn't shy then. We had a… — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read… — Juana Inés de la Cruz Copy Share Image
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther… — John Milton Copy Share Image
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief -… — Jerry Brown 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
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses… — Samuel Johnson 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
