Quotes About Mischief

Tom got out a bit of paper and carefully unrolled it. Huckleberry viewed it wistfully. The temptation was very strong. At last he said: Is it genuwyne? Tom lifted his lip and showed the vacancy. Well, all right, said Huckleberry, it's a trade. Tom enclosed the tick in the percussion-cap box that had lately been the pinchbug's prison, and the boys separated, each feeling wealthier than before.

Tom did play hookey, and

to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse. In that vise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school. Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne without saying a word. But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.

A trifle after noon the boys borrowed a small skiff from a citizen who was absent

It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had, therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing.

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

knowing smile on his face: What's this mischief here?

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it; accordingly, they parade their doctrines in all seriousness as true sensu proprio, and as absurdities form an essential part of these doctrines we have the great mischief of a continual fraud.

There is helium in his tone of voice, a lightness that means mischief.

He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people's minds.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

OFF THE COUCH! BAD KITTIES!

Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief.

It's amazing how much trouble two selfish outlaws can cause.

As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Runningkit and Mousekit, three moons older, were teasing them by flicking lumps of snow at them and then looking innocent when the kits skidded to a halt to complain.

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

You look happy, Naughty. Have you and Nice made up yet?