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
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
“With insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody's feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody's destiny. She… — Jane Austen 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
If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds… — Mark Twain 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
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design. — Samuel Johnson 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
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs. — Joseph Addison 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
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief. — Roger Chamberlain 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
The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“In today's youth, morals and manners are replaced by money and mischiefs.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.” — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right… — Russell Brand 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
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Major Eele observed Studdy clumsily thinking. He saw an opportunity to create a pleasant mischief and did so immediately.” — William Trevor 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
A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice… — Derrick Bell 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
“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
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
If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When… — Thomas Paine 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
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
