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Mischief Quotes

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

Authors on Mischief Quotes: Gautama Buddha Ben Jonson Publilius Syrus Honore de Balzac J. K. Rowling Diego Maradona Abigail Van Buren Mary Oliver Thomas Boswell Henry Ward Beecher William Camden Horace F. Scott Fitzgerald Charles James Eric Cantona Mary Baker Eddy Thomas Jefferson Jean-Baptiste Say William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe Bathsua Makin Mary Archer Robert Greene Jeremy Bentham William Cowper Guy Maddin Alexander Pope Mary Augusta Ward Stephen Sondheim Juvenal V. S. Naipaul James Madison Washington Irving
2.
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.
Mary Baker Eddy

3.
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.
Gautama Buddha

4.
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.
Mary Oliver

5.
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
Honore de Balzac

6.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham

7.
She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game
F. Scott Fitzgerald

8.
She who means no mischief does it all.
Aaron Hill

9.
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
James Madison

10.
A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.
Bathsua Makin

11.
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.
Ben Jonson

12.
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
Demosthenes

13.
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
Saadi

14.
Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
William Blake

15.
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
J. K. Rowling

16.
No greater mischief could be wrought Than love united to a jealous thought.
Robert Greene

17.
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
William Cowper

18.
Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.
Diego Maradona

19.
He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
Publilius Syrus

20.
These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]
Horace

21.
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
Publilius Syrus

22.
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
Alexander Pope

23.
Baseball is religion without the mischief.
Thomas Boswell

24.
He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.
William Camden

25.
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
Charles James

26.
Writing is a form of mischief.
Stephen Sondheim

27.
Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
Christopher Marlowe

28.
Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.
Gautama Buddha

29.
He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.
Kobe Bryant

30.
Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.
Thomas Jefferson

31.
And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.
William Shakespeare

32.
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
Henry Ward Beecher

33.
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
Ben Jonson

34.
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.
Jean-Baptiste Say

35.
I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
Mary Archer

36.
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
Washington Irving

37.
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.
Guy Maddin

38.
The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.
Steve Aylett

39.
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
Mary Augusta Ward

40.
There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.
Abigail Van Buren

41.
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
Juvenal

42.
I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.
Eric Cantona

43.
An evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Hesiod

44.
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!
Frederick Douglass