Top 50 Doing Mischief Quotes

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

Voltaire

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#2. An Opportunity of doing Mischief, says -Zoroaster-, offers itself a hundred Times a Day; but that of doing a Friend a good Office but once a Year.

Voltaire

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#3. 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.

Derrick A. Bell

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

William Blackstone

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#5. When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Henry Fielding

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#6. Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her brain was so full of mischief that if the teacher could have once seen through that mask of perfection, she would have thrown her out in horror.

Katherine Paterson

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#7. In works of labour,
or of skill,
I would be busy, too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.

Isaac Watts

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#8. conscious mind had enough to deal with right now without worrying about what mischief my subconscious was up to.

C. Greenwood

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#9. 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.

Kenneth Rexroth

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#10. 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.

Louise J. Kaplan

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#11. I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

James Anthony Froude

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#12. When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Stephen King

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#14. The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.

Antoine Rivarol

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#15. [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.

Louisa May Alcott

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

T. Colin Campbell

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

Martin Amis

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#18. The whole thing reeked of faerie mischief.
Screw you. Me and my magic hands will be fine, thank you very much.I'm staying right where I am.

Kiersten White

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#19. 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.

Thomas Paine

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#20. Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.
'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.
'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

Jonathan Renshaw

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#21. I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.

Michael J. Sullivan

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#22. Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial.

Katie Alender

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

Horace

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#24. Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons.

Bernard Cornwell

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

Peggy Parish

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#26. Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

Frederick Douglass

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#27. Aunt Ruth looked at the unlucky pair.
"What are you doing here?" she asked Perry.
Stovepipe Town made a mistake.
"Oh, looking for a round square," said Perry off-handedly, his eyes suddenly becoming limpid with mischief and lawless roguery.

L.M. Montgomery

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#28. He lounged on his side, bare-chested and barefooted, his jeans unbuttoned to show both the waistband of his underwear and the sleek lines of his ripped abs. His dark brown hair was sexily mussed and his emerald eyes were bright with mischief.

Sylvia Day

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#29. The great move mountains;
the cowardly hide behind them.
The extraordinary walk on water;
the mediocre drown on land.
The excellent perform miracles;
the inferior carry out mischief.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#30. Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

Plato

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

Edmund Burke

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#32. Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.

Andrew Michael Ramsay

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#33. 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!

William Shakespeare

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#34. I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe ...

H.G.Wells

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#35. There's an imp inside me, and if I don't let him out to make some mischief now and then, the world just gets too damned dull. I hate feeling grumpy and bored. I'm an enthusiast, and the more dangerous my life becomes, the happier I am.

Paul Auster

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#36. Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

Diogenes

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#37. Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

William Vickrey

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#38. We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We wish Fillory would last forever and not die. Done. Mischief managed." Eliot

Lev Grossman

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#39. You are my wickedest mischievous sisters, most beloved friends of my mind. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Laura Goode

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#40. O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the hearts of desperate men!

William Shakespeare

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#41. No politics, Murphy," Eve chided with a wag of her finger. "You're here to do a job." "Work." His furry mouth drooped. "How depressing. I'm a god. I should be having fun." "How about causing mischief?" His bearing straightened. "I'm good at doing that.

Eve Langlais

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#42. A little neglect may breed mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want a horse the rider was lost; for want of the rider the battle was lost.

Benjamin Franklin

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#43. Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

John Milton

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#44. Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Chris Chocola

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#45. All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Jeremy Bentham

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

Peg Bracken

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#47. 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.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

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

Andrew Jackson

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#49. To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Benjamin Rush

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