Mischief Quotes

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game

She who means no mischief does it all.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

You are not now to think what's best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter'd; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper'd , 'twill be virtue.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.

Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.

No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.

He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

Writing is a form of mischief.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before the remedy is devised.

I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.