Mischief

Famous quotes containing the word mischief:

“There is no end to the undeserved misery and mischief it could create.”
—Abigail Van Buren (b. 1918)

“One wonders that the tithing-men and fathers of the town are not out to see what the trees mean by their high colors and exuberance of spirits, fearing that some mischief is brewing. I do not see what the Puritans did at this season, when the maples blaze out in scarlet. They certainly could not have worshiped in groves then. Perhaps that is what they built meeting-houses and fenced them round with horse-sheds for.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What exists outside is a man’s concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)