Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

- Ben Jonson

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

- Eric Cantona

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.

- Hesiod

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Henry Fielding

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

- Jeremy Bentham