“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
“A little neglect may breed great mischief.”
Benjamin Franklin
“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
William Shakespeare
“A little neglect may breed 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”
“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
“It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.”
Thomas Paine
“See what it is to play unfair!Where cheating is, there's mischief there.”
William Blake
