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"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." »Winston Churchill
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"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." »Winston Churchill
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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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"You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life." »Hannah Nixon
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"The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the example." »Robert Hall
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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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"Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief." »R Chamberlain
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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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"It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations." »Von Humboldt
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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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"She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do." »Andrew Schneider
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"The idea of an incarnation of God is absurd: why should the human race think itself so superior to bees, ants, and elephants as to be put in this unique relation to its maker? . . Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung-hill croaking and squeaking "for our sakes was the world created."" »Julian the Apostate
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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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"The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination." »John Schaar, futurist
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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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