Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The world is round, so if you do something bad you had better duck. — Aaliyah Hurley Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world. — Edwin Paxton Hood Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James Copy Share Image
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger,… — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode! But darkness and the gloomy shade of death… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens.… — Marcia Clark 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
When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we… — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world… — Poul Anderson 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
“Maintain an active mind: alert to the possibilities and mischievous in your pursuit of them.” — Stewart Stafford 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
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
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. — Alexander Pope 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
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty. — Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars. — Mary Baker Eddy 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 consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief. — Jim Mattis 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
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
