Quotes About Mischief

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

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

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

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.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They can't even walk straight.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

Anything that makes your mother cry is fun

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

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.

O but we dreamed to mendWhatever mischief seemedTo afflict mankind, but nowThat winds of winter blowLearn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

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?

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.

And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord [a respectful term used by Aaron to address his younger brother, Moses] wax hot [don't get mad at me]: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief [you know how prone these people are to do evil].

There is no surer sign of mischief in Africa than these trumpery charges of bewitching houses by placing things on them: some such over-strained accusation is generally set in the front rank when other difficulties are to come: drunkenness is pretty much the same thing in all parts of the world, and gathers misery around it as easily in an African village as in an English city. Had

Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity.

If at all God's gaze falls upon us all it's with a mischievous grin, look at him.

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

I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

Good friends will share the umbrella. Best friends Will steal it and yell: RUN LOSER RUN!

A good friend helps you up when you fall, a best friend laughs in your face and trips you again.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.