Mischief Quotes - Page 4

• 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?

  Francis Quarles

  Hate, Grief, Men

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• No greater mischief could be wrought
  Than love united to a jealous thought.

  Robert Greene

  Jealousy, United, Greater

  Robert Greene, George Peele, Alexander Dyce (1861). “The dramatic and poetical works: With memoirs of the authors and notes”, p.311

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• As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

  Vernon Lee

  Brother, Believe, Thinking

  Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life”

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• 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 Bell

  Inspirational, Grief, Gains

  Derrick A. Bell (1994). “Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Errors, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

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• I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

  Mary Archer

  Long, Hope To Live, Remembered

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• Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

  Bryan Procter

  Brain, Despair, Strikes

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

  Anatole France

  Sex, Pretty Woman, Easy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Wish, Vices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.203

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• 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.

  Julian McMahon

  Father, Odd, Prime

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• By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual

  Jeremy Bentham

  Pain, Party, Evil

  Jeremy Bentham (1879). “The Principles of Morals and Legislation”

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• It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

  William Cobbett

  Education, Real, Boys

  William Cobbett (1817). “Cobbett's Weekly Political Register”

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

  Mira Nair

  Important, Life Is, Boring

  Interview with Bonnie Greer, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. 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. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, Government

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

  Jack Vance

  Moving, Magic, Blast

  Jack Vance (2000). “Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

  Ben Jonson

  Beast, Fats

  'Volpone' (1605) act 5, sc. 8

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• 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

  Responsibility, Men, Doe

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• 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.

  Indra Sinha

  Sorry, Writing, Ideas

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

  Edwin Paxton Hood

  Men, World, Littles

  Edwin Paxton Hood (1859). “Bind Amos and his velvet principles”, p.153

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• We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dark, Doctors, Medicine

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

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Despair, Storm, September

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.241, Macmillan

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• 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.

  John Locke

  Should Have, Age, World

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.119

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• 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.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Racing, Said, Difficult

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• There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Crush, Baby

  "Adam Bede".

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• A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

  Edmund Burke

  World, Vex, Arise

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.58

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