The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.
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.
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.