Mischief Quotes

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.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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.

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.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

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

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

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.

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

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

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

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

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

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!

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

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.

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

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

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.