To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
William Shakespeare
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WILLIAM CAMDEN Let them call it mischief;
Then it is past and prosper'd, 'twill be virtue.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
BEN JONSON It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself i...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is...
GEORGE BORROW It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself i...
GEORGE BORROW It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full o...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
J.K. ROWLING …for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;
GEORGE MACDONALD Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When the mischief is done the door is shut.
UNKNOWN Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief
HONORE DE BALZAC Every one is wise when the mischief is done.
SPANISH PROVERB Mischief Managed.
J.K. ROWLING Mischief Managed!!!
J.K. ROWLING See what it is to play unfair!Where cheating is, there's mischief there.
WILLIAM BLAKE Let not turn fun to mischief.
PROVERB All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
JEREMY BENTHAM No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE They're up to political mischief and making a nuisance of themselves.
MIKE MCCURRY Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
JANE AUSTEN It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
BIBLE After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head
WASHINGTON IRVING Repentance won't cure mischief.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Repentance won't cure mischief.
GAELIC PROVERB I promise I will repay you.”
“Oh yeah?” she asked, looking at him, with his bare feet an...
HOLLY BLACK The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.
DIEGO MARADONA To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischi...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle h...
HOLLY BLACK It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
GEORGE WASHINGTON A little neglect may breed great mischief.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief?
KATHLEEN O'NEAL GEAR Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
CHARMAINE J. FORDE At boarding schools the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief, and of the seniors vice
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
BIBLE As order is heavenly, where quiet is had,
So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.
THOMAS TUSSER To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mi...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.
PLATO You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
SIR JOHN DENHAM The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
VOLTAIRE I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.
ERIC CANTONA Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our...
H.G. WELLS I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired ...
JASPER FFORDE I have very good evidence not that the process is broken but within the process there was just misch...
CHARLES GRASSLEY For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do
ISAAC WATTS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war
JOHN GREEN Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. It has a lot of room for mischief, ... loophole laden.
HEATHER TAYLOR O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The place had enormous possibilities. He realized that at once. The stream, of course, was perfect f...
DAVID EDDINGS Mischief may be done negatively as well as positively.
THOMAS JEFFERSON In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V,...
IAN DOESCHER For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
ISAAC WATTS Sometimes you loose a battle. But mischief always wins a war.
JOHN GREEN I could get up to a lot of mischief and no one would know it was me
CAT DEELEY It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where every...
V.S. NAIPAUL And David knew that Saul secretly practised mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest...
BIBLE Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in uncle...
DAN GROAT In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within door...
AESCHYLUS We're working to fix this mischief. This cuts a big chunk of money. It hurts.
JOHN DINGELL Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
MAMNOON HUSSAIN When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
HENRY FIELDING To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
BIBLE Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.” Ninety-eight
JOHN GREEN A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing,
And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) What! now! and indeed you disobeyed before and you were of the mischief-makers.
QURAN seven cases of criminal mischief, ranging from water damage to the interior of a building (significa...
GEORGE MEYER We speculate that some, if not most, of these acts of mischief may relate to a non-sanctioned grad r...
SGT. PAUL SKELTON He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner...
HESIOD It's not the mischief in this case that would cause the (Supreme) Court to be worried. It's the next...
ALAN MORRISON I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischie...
GEORGE ORWELL Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
BIBLE I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily...
MARY OLIVER He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune;
for they are impediments to great ...
FRANCIS BACON To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... They say, The pen is mightier than the sword, and the keystroke is mightier still.
I say, The pen is...
APURVA GAGLANI Children were huge, wild creatures full of promise and hope and dirt and mischief.
NALINI SINGH Mischief that barks at a sudden clock needs much attention with secured accuracy to oppose fright of...
GAURAV KUMAR PARBAT To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. E...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Dork," I chastised affectionately. But his cheesy exclamation was something I was okay with. I smile...
SARAH BROCIOUS You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Technology is going the wrong way. Instead of working on the next great ipod we need to focus on spa...
DEMOSTHENES LOCKE It's too early in the investigation to speculate how much of this mischief was caused by those assoc...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that
supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned
Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else
But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE