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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.]
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.
Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.
Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
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.
Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.
I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.
If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center.
My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.
Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.
The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.
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.
The truth is, I admire his mischief, because if Suarez were to lose that, he would become an average player.
Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.
We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.
The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.
The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief - to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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.
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.
I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.
To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.
