C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Mischief
She who means no mischief does it all.
Aaron Hill.
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare.
Pope.
Few men are so clever as to know all the mischief they do.
La Rochefoucauld.
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
Demosthenes.
The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is.
Rivarol.
Mischief, and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.
Aaron Hill.
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.
Balzac.
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief,—enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Bulwer-Lytton.
The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year.
Voltaire.