Mischief Quotes

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.

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

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

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

Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.

Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

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.

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

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

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

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

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

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

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

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need -- another excuse to be jerks.

Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief.

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

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

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

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

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had, so error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.

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

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.