quotes about Mischief
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She who means no mischief does it all.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill, Urania Hill Johnson (1754). “Poems”, p.135
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When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
-- Alexander Pope -
A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.
-- Bathsua MakinSource : 1673 An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners, Art and Tongues,With An Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education.
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Let them call it mischief; when it is past and prospered, it will be virtue.
-- Ben Jonson -
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It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.
-- Charles JamesSource : "George III" by John Brooke, Panther, (pp. 363-364), 1974.
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Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
-- Christopher MarloweSource : Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.
-- Diego Maradona -
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Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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 SaySource : Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.336
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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
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The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.
-- Mandell Creighton -
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 -
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.
-- Publilius Syrus -
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The best way of getting into something is to think of it as mischief.
-- Steve Aylett -
Baseball is religion without the mischief.
-- Thomas Boswell -
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 -
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
-- Washington Irving -
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He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.
-- William CamdenSource : William Camden (1870). “Remaines of a greater worke, concerning Britaine [signed M.N.] 2 pt. [Another]”, p.324
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
-- William Cowper -
Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
-- William Shakespeare -
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.
-- Guy Maddin -