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.
Bruce Jay Friedman

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Jeremy Bentham

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.
Chris Chocola

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine

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

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

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
Hesiod

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
Julian McMahon

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

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.
George Borrow

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
Ben Jonson

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
William Blackstone

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Voltaire

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

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Alexander Pope