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

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

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

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

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.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

[Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it’s worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family.

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

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.

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

No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought.

So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside‘s going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie

It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.

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

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

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.

May never glorious sun reflex his beams
Upon the country where you make abode!
But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
Environ you till mischief and despair
Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

Uncle Fester always intrigued me. I certainly always enjoyed his kind of humor. He’s just full of mischief in a kind of macabre way. I don’t see anything twisted about it. It’s sort of ridiculous and wacky. It’s sort of fun.

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Government should have drones. Industries, companies can have drones. Everyone else doesn’t need drones. It’s just going to create mischief. They are going to be crashing the planes, they’re going to be spying on neighbors. People don’t need drones.

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.

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

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

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. … For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

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

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, “O Fortune!” said he, “for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

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

The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.

No man’s condition is so base as his;
None more accurs’d than he; for man esteems
Him hateful, ’cause he seems not what he is;
God hates him, ’cause he is not what he seems;
What grief is absent, or what mischief can
Be added to the hate of God and man?

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

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don’t you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? — and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,’ they think it is all right.

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

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

When you get a question like, ‘Did you like meeting Her Majesty?’ ‘No, I thought she was a slob.’ I mean, what are you going to say… The mischief comes into me when I’m doing a Q&A, I’m 9 years old again. I don’t get mad. I do get offended.

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.

The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.

I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life.

The essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.

Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

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.

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.

Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;
Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife
Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath,
Bitter despite, with rancor‘s rusty knife;
And fretting grief the enemy of life;
All these and many evils more, haunt ire.

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

There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system – it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that’s when the mischief happens. And you’re not allowed to be assertive and feminine.

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

I can’t do too much musical movement with a lot of MC’s, because they don’t know how to follow me. But with Souls of Mischief, I could go anywhere because they are musicians – they rap as musicians, and they play instruments and produce, so they get that.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

Negotiate with those who wish to talk – and take action against those who create mischief.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Halloween‘s eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That’s great, just what teenagers need — another excuse to be jerks.

I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.

What are you up to?” “Oh, you know, mischief and mayhem,” he replied. “That so reminds me of Harry Potter,” Brit said, sighing. “I need a re-read.” We all turned to her. Two bright spots appeared in her cheeks as she tossed her blonde hair back. “What? I’m not ashamed to admit that random things remind me of Harry Potter.

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief’s beneath thy shade.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.

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.

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

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.

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

What is really important to me is a sense of humour and a mischief about life. Life is just too boring otherwise.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

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.

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

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

I was invited by a publisher to write the text for Tantra.[1] Having done some research, what fascinated me was the evidence that many ‘tantric’ ideas actually came to India from the Mediterranean. It is rather a dry read and debunks reports of orgies and sexual mischief – sorry to disappoint.

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.

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

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

Never approach a friend’s wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal… unless she’s really attractive.

To attempt to enumerate the complicated variety of mischiefs in the whole system of the social economy, which proceed from a neglect of the maxims that uphold public credit, and justify the solicitude manifested by the House on this point, would be an improper intrusion on their time and patience.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

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.

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

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

“I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher.” That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

Honor’s a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

It’s Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

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

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

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.

I’d rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

I think you can tell just how much fun we’re going to have making ‘Top Gear‘ with Paddy and Freddie. They’re both brilliant, natural entertainers – and their mischief mixed with the most exciting cars on the planet is sure to take the show to the next level.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

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.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

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

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

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

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There’s more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

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

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

Like many people of my generation, I feel like I survived my adolescent mischief only by a miracle, and it seems too much to hope for that the same miracle would befall my children – therefore, I want to make sure they take fewer chances than I did.

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.

You get to have some mischief before you’re basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus‘ brow, The amber sweet of love is turn‘d to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.

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

No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God’s word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

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

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

What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy‘s proclamation of masculinity.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

But coming back from injury, is like starting to exercise for the first time. You can’t get stuck in straight away because you might do yourself a mischief; you have to be sensible.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief – as well as injustice – to those who should gain exemptions from the rule’s functioning.

When I was 15, Aston Villa offered me a trial for four days. In those days, I was more interested in making mischief and I didn’t even turn up until the fourth day and then they sent me packing because they said I wasn’t dedicated enough.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

I consider ISIS nothing more than an excuse for Iran to continue its mischief.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man‘s mind, under the general head of liberty.

The King of Prussia is innately a bad neighbor, but the English will also always be bad neighbors to France, and the sea has never prevented them from doing her great mischief.

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others’ applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one’s own breast.

Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that’s when the mischief starts.

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven‘t thought of yet.

O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

Mischief nodded. ‘It’s true,’ he conceded. ‘You’re in the company of eight world-class thieves,’ he said, not without a little touch of pride. ‘Saints we are not.’ But then,’ said Deaux-Deaux, ‘who is?’ he thought on this. ‘Besides saints.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

Writing is a form of mischief.

Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.

To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other.

A fundamental premise of American democratic theory is that government exists to serve the people. … Public records are one portal through which the people observe their government, ensuring its accountability, integrity, and equity while minimizing sovereign mischief and malfeasance

O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

It’s a lovely moment when everyone‘s part of something greater than the sum of its parts. That encapsulates what a comedy gig should be, with the comic as the lightning rod, the Norse mischief god, getting the audience to do something they wouldn’t necessarily do.

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

There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.

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!

Where cheating is, there’s mischief there.

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

There’s a look of mischief in his eyes. ‘Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.’ I’m sorry,’ I say, ‘if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that’s rough. I do my best to be rough all over.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

His subject is the “Origin of Species,” & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

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.

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.

So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.

Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.

I’ve always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.

Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

If anyone thinks he can help you, he will inevitably mislead you, and the less phony he is; the more powerful he is, the more enlightened he is, the more misery and mischief he will create for you.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

She who means no mischief does it all.

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

These trifles will lead to serious mischief.
[Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent
In mala.]

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.

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.

The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

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

The people who crucified Jesus were not able to see his godliness at all; they could only see the mischief in him.

Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.

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.

But war’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.