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"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on." »William Shakespeare
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"The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example." »Robert Hall
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"Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief." »R Chamberlain
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"No man is exempt from saying silly things the mischief is to say them deliberately." »Michel de Montaigne
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"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately." »Michel de Montaigne
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"It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best." »E. R. Bulwer-Lytton
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"What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion." »Daisy Bates
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"Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade." »Aaron Hill
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life men think friends to be their only refuge. The young they keep out of mischief, to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds." »Aristotle
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"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds." »Aristotle
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"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut." »Johann von Goethe
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"Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?" »Benjamin Franklin
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"The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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." »Saadi
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