A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design. — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 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
Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse. — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No man's condition is so base as his; None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems Him hateful, 'cause he seems not… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.” — Nalini Singh 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
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
“That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those… — Matthew Tindal Copy Share Image
Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
