“ To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief. ”
- Bill Vaughan- Copy
- 3.2K
“ O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 742
“ To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds. ”
- Dilys Laing- Copy
- 1.5K
“ They were becoming like a little Mafia. If one committed a mischief, the others would not tell. ”
- Franco Diligenti- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A word that has been said may be unsaid — it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 38
“ Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! — what worthy man does not keep those in mind? ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars. ”
- Mary Baker Eddy- Copy
- 3.8K
“ The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example. ”
- Robert Hall- Copy
- 3.7K
“ No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
- 2K
“ Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. ”
- Aaron Hill- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 390
“ He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.5K
“ He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense. ”
- Publilius Syrus- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I hate the actor and audience business; an author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 2.9K
“ That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 2.6K
“ There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles…but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 90
“ Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers' stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale. 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
- 715
“ What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. ”
- Bruce Jay Friedman- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils but its general language should not, therefore, be necessarily confined to the form that evil had theretofore taken. Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes… ”
- Joseph McKenna- Copy
- 493
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