Mischief famous quotes

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

#Mean #Doe #Mischief

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

#Instruments #Ill #Mischief

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

#Gender #Comets #Mischief

Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.
-- Ben Jonson

#Past #Virtue #Mischief

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

#Power Of One #Should #Mischief

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
-- Christopher Marlowe

#Atheism #Suspicion #Mischief

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

#Harvest #Mischief

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

#Mischief

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

#Men #Reign #Mischief

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

#Causes #Mischief #Remedy

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

#Punishment #Evil #Mischief

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

#Doors #Done #Mischief

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
-- Mandell Creighton

#Education #Men #Mischief

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

#Long #Mischief #Remembered

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

#Kindness #Believe #Mischief

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

#Knowing #Imitation #Mischief

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

#Thinking #Way #Mischief

Baseball is religion without the mischief.
-- Thomas Boswell

#Baseball #Mischief

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

#Views #World #Mischief

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

#Men #Mischief

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

#Mischief

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

#Judgment #Should #Mischief

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

#Art #Work #Mischief

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

#Bananas #Mischief