She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases; we have done more; we have increased their mortality. . . . I am pursuing Truth, and am indifferent whither I am led, if she is my only leader.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, the mind, delighting in mischief, will catch you.
The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.
When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.
Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars.
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.
Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.
Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.
What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.