The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
“I promise I will repay you.” “Oh yeah?” she asked, looking at him, with his bare feet and plain, dark clothes. “With… — Holly Black 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
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all… — Sy Montgomery 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
No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;… — Edmund Spenser 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
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see,… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and… — Dilys Laing Copy Share Image
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it",… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy.… — Saadi Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at… — Laura Goode 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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government's mischief... the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other… — Gore Vidal 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
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
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