Mischievous Quotes - Page 2

• Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

  Hesiod

  Children, Grief, Heart

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• To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Sheep, Giving, Cows

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• I like stirring things up. Im on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I dont get in too much trouble.

  William Joyce

  Kids, Adults, Too Much

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• The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators, that's a similarity to Greek mythology, for instance, you know. They're not saints, they're not saints. They're powerful. It's why they're not tyrannical. Of course, a number of them are also very, you know, benevolent, you know, there are saintly virtues to be found in them.

  Wole Soyinka

  Powerful, Numbers, Greek

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• the excess of all good things is mischievous.

  Lydia M. Child

  Excess, Good Things, Extremes

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• Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Jewels, Belief, Made

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.24

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• If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Writing, Feelings, Ifs

  "Liz Meriwether: Beginning And End Of The Fempire". Interview with Kate Branch, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage them to be mischievous. Then they will be in control in a wider sense. To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow is the way to control him. So it is with people: first let them do what they want, and watch them. This is the best policy. To ignore them is not good. That is the worst policy. The second worst is trying to control them. The best one is to watch them, just to watch them, without trying to control them.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Sheep, People, Giving

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• If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Discovery, Laughing

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 65 (1776 - 1788)

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• a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance, be one of the most dangerous and mischievous forces in the world.

  Frances Harper

  Spiritual, Achievement, World

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• Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

  Alexander Pope

  Powerful, Learning, Science

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.118

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• Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

  Josiah Royce

  Loyalty, Men, May

  Josiah Royce, John Joseph McDermott, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (2005). “The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce: Logic, loyalty, and community”, p.898, Fordham Univ Press

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• All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. In my opinion, there never was a good war or a bad peace. When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Arbitration, Opinion

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• Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Passion, Boredom, Increase

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• Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent and feeling, by any sensible definition of the words. They can't hop into the back of a Volvo, but they can fetch, run and play, be mischievous, and reciprocate affection. So why don't they get to curl up by the fire? Why can't they at least be spared being tossed on the fire?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Dog, Intelligent

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.

  Plato

  Mean, Color, Cooking

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• As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Kids, Stuff, Adventurous

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

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• I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who have genuine concern about humanity, make some effort-better than none.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Thinking, Genuine Concern

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• Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Lying, Unique, Men

  Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc

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• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

  James Madison

  Religious, Ignorance, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

  David Lilienthal

  Men, Ideas, Boots

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• Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Ambition, People, Exhibitions

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1837). “Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait”, p.86

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• Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.

  John Muir

  Life, Nature, Fun

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend (Autobiography With Original Drawings): The Memoirs of the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite, Travels in Alaska, The Mountains of California & Steep Trails”, p.73, e-artnow

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• After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Death, War, Ridiculous

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Ambition, Mind, Fiction

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “The Works”, p.199

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