“Major Eele observed Studdy clumsily thinking. He saw an opportunity to create a pleasant mischief and did so immediately.” — William Trevor 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
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
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
“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
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
“There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.” — Daphne Athas 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
Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold… — Mary Renault 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
What are you up to?” “Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied. “That so reminds me of Harry Potter,” Brit said,… — J. Lynn 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
If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause… — William Benton Clulow 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
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
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness. — Anonymous 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
“Being full of mischief, they love to listen; they gladly obey, for they like to betray you, pretending to be sent from… — Goethe 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
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James 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
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
“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“Maintain an active mind: alert to the possibilities and mischievous in your pursuit of them.” — Stewart Stafford 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
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
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
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
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Life is one big road with lots of signs, So when you riding through the ruts, Don't you complicate your mind Flee… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the… — Alexander Whyte Copy Share Image
