Top 318 Mischief Quotes & Sayings

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

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

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

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

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

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

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

She who means no mischief does it all.

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

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

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

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

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

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

Writing is a form of mischief.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

Where cheating is, there's mischief there.

He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.

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

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

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

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

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

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.

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

It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.

I fell in love with you because there was a mischief in your eyes.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

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

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

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

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.

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

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, And you will be filled with joy. A fool is happy Until his mischief turns against him. And a good man may suffer Until his goodness flowers. Do not make light of your failings, Saying, 'What are they to me?' A jug fills drop by drop.

Growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a ninja. In martial arts, even though I did Chinese kung fu, I always wanted to be this secret samurai or a ninja. There's something about ninjas that was very appealing to me as a kid. So of course, I was climbing a lot of trees and other things and getting up to mischief - good mischief.

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

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.

There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!

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

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

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

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