The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for… — John Green 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
“When Church and State are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other; but where… — Isaac Backus Copy Share Image
Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be… — Angelina Grimke 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
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks… — Julian McMahon Copy Share Image
There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the… — Juan Manuel Fangio Copy Share Image
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in… — Benjamin Disraeli 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
What are you up to?” “Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied. “That so reminds me of Harry Potter,” Brit said,… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan 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
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
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen. — James Madison Copy Share Image
