Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
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.
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism, that he is too much in earnest in his democracy, that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration, that he is crafty & persevering in his objects, that he is not scrupulous about the means of success, nor very mindful of truth, and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.
Live fast, have fun, be a bit mischievous.
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.
When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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