Mischievous Quotes

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There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children. — Kate Douglas Wiggin
And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between… — Gilbert Blane
Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.... — Plato
BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that… — Rob Brezsny
Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine… — Charles Spurgeon
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. — Hesiod
I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from… — Hippocrates
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to… — Oscar Wilde
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous. — Alexander Pope
Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his… — Ruth Nanda Anshen
When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means. — Carlo Collodi
Tobacco, in its various forms, is one of the most mischievous of all drugs. There is perhaps no other drug which injures the body in… — John Harvey Kellogg
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward. — David Lilienthal
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who… — Joshua Reynolds
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes-… — John Muir
After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both. — Theodore Roosevelt
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition. — Suetonius
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. — Benjamin Franklin

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