Mischief Quotes · Page 3

“If another Beam lets go, a little mischief won’t matter”

— Stephen King

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

— Plato

She who means no mischief does it all.

— Aaron Hill

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

— Benjamin Franklin

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

— Bob Marley

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

— Thomas Boswell

“knowing smile on his face: What’s this mischief here?”

— Arthur Miller

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

— Benjamin Franklin

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

— Catherynne M. Valente

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

— Demosthenes

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

— Horace

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

— Andrew Jackson

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

— Isaac Newton

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

— Ben Jonson

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

— Mary Augusta Ward

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot…

— Bible

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is…

— Daniel Webster

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with…

— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr

“Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's…

— Katie Alender

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not…

— Hannah More

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

“Seropusly, why do flies line up in the sky every time someone lies? Hovering over they long to take the shit out…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do'...He might have written with as much truth, 'Satan finds some mischief for…

— Charles Dickens

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own…

— Arthur Eddington

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity…

— Charles Caleb Colton

And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand…

— Benjamin Franklin

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was…

— Emilie Schindler

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great…

— Edmund Burke

Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of…

— Joseph Hall

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish;…

— George Eliot

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

Through every right and every wrong thing I've done, the wrong ones are the most fun doing.

— Amarjeet Das

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

— Edmund Burke

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

— John Denham

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

— Mary Oliver

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

— Eric Cantona

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

— Honore de Balzac