He that mischief hatcheth,
Mischief catcheth. [ Proverb ]

Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do. [ Watts ]

Mirth and mischief are two things. [ Proverb ]

None but great men can do mischief. [ Proverb ]

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow
In the brain as mischief or remorse. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Welcome mischief, if you come alone. [ Proverb ]

She who means no mischief does it all. [ Aaron Hill ]

No greater mischief could be wrought
Than love united to a jealous thought. [ Greene ]

There is no mischief in the world done,
But a woman is always one. [ Proverb ]

Mrs. Chatterbox is the mother of mischief. [ Proverb ]

Uncertain ways unsafest are.
And doubt a greater mischief than despair. [ Sir John Denham ]

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [ Horace ]

Sometimes it costs a great deal to do mischief. [ Proverb ]

Not one false man but does uncountable mischief. [ Carlyle ]

An ill man in office is a mischief to the public. [ Proverb ]

All mischief comes from our inability to be alone. [ La Bruyère ]

To feel envy is human; to joy in mischief is devilish. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

That mischief comes justly that is of your own seeking. [ Proverb ]

Mischief comes by the pound, and goes away by the ounce. [ Proverb ]

He that is disposed for mischief will never want occasion. [ Proverb ]

The greatest mischief you can do the envious is to do well. [ Proverb ]

Nobody does all the mischief, and nobody is always to blame. [ W. L. Parsons ]

He'll find money for mischief when he can find none for corn. [ Proverb ]

Openness has the mischief though not the malice of treachery. [ Proverb ]

A little time may be enough to catch a great deal of mischief. [ Proverb ]

Ah! perhaps while we are hoping, mischief has already overtaken us. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The habitual indulgence in such reading is a silent, mining mischief. [ Hannah More ]

It is as great a mischief to spare all, as it is cruelty to spare none. [ Proverb ]

He that hinders not a mischief when it is in his power, is guilty of it. [ Proverb ]

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere. [ Ramsay ]

Religion without piety hath done more mischief in the world than all other things put together. [ Proverb ]

The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year. [ Voltaire ]

Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done. [ Bovee ]

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world. [ Paxton Hood ]

When an eagle soareth nearest to the sun he is hovering for his prey, and when a woman is most lip-holy she is most bait on mischief. [ Dempster ]

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. [ Ouida ]

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. [ Sheridan ]

Swearing is invoking the witness of a spirit to an assertion you wish to make, but cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit in a mischief you wish to inflict. [ John Ruskin ]

It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. [ Sprat ]

He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]

I could write down twenty cases, wherein I wished God had done otherwise than He did; but which I now see, had I had my own will, would have led to extensive mischief. The life of a Christian is a life of paradoxes. [ Cecil ]

He is a treacherous supplanter and underminer of the peace of all families and societies. This being a maxim of an unfailing truth, that nobody ever pries into another man's concerns but with a design to do, or to be able to do him a mischief. [ South ]

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all the 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. [ Goethe ]

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]