Mischief Quotes

Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief`s beneath thy shade.

I was always the pet of my teachers in school probably because I was considered to be very cute. Because of my innocent looks I usually got away with a lot of mischief. I was spoilt and pampered by everyone. All I had to do was sport a lost-boy look and I would have things my way. At home too, if I wasn`t given something I wanted, I would simply sit with a long face till I got it.

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

`What should be, is.` As my grandmother explained it to our family the winter she lost three fingertips to frostbite when the furnace in her little house broke and she fell and cracked a hip while trying to light it, `Accepting life`s imperfections is not the secret. The secret, dears, is to understand life has none. How could it? We`ve got nothing to compare it to. We can dream something up, of course- some pretty maybe life where fingers are very hard and indestructible- but that`s pure mischief, darlings. Fingers freeze. It`s one of the things they like to do sometimes.`

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

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.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

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

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend`s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she`s really attractive.

'¦for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...