Quotes with mischief

  • In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
  • When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
  • Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
  • As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
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  • Bruce Friedman 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.
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  • Benjamin Franklin A little neglect may breed great mischief.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Akhenaton As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Alexander Pope But when mischief mortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
    Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Barry Cornwall Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Aldous Huxley Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon 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
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Publilius Syrus He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence 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.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • George Washington It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Plato Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bob Marley Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Aaron Hill Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Andrew Jackson Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • William Shakespeare O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aaron Hill Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • William E. Vaughan Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Isaac Watts Satan always finds some mischief for idle hands to do.
    Isaac Watts
    English hymn writer, theologian, and logician (1674 - 1748)
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  • William Shakespeare To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aeschylus What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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