Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal] — Isaac Newton 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
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair. — John Denham Copy Share Image
“Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
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
Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Through every right and every wrong thing I've done, the wrong ones are the most fun doing. — Amarjeet Das 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
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
Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
It were well if there were fewer heroes; for I scarcely ever heard of any, excepting Hercules, but did more mischief than… — Jeremy Collier 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
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 Copy Share Image
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of… — Clive Barker 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
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
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image