A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day and of doing good once in a year.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine if you want - but also some sort of sadness and plain mischief of course.
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow I never saw anyone carrying a dog or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a a pet some years later in Kiev so I thought that life must have been different.