#misc

How many other people?" Alec asked. "Roughly." Magnus shook his head. "I can't count, and it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how I feel about you." "More than a hundred?" Alec asked. Magnus looked blank. "Two hundred?" "I can't believe we're having this conversation now," Magnus said. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#conversation

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors. ↗

— Aeschylus

#concern #doors #exists #give #man

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. ↗

— Jane Austen

#head #mischief #produces #sort #vanity

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. ↗

— Aristotle

#comfort #deeds #friends #incite #keep

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#busy #character #deity #goodness #greatest

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#i #image #like #lot #misconceptions

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#around #elvis #going #had #him

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

#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow

I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated. ↗

— Drake

#i #mischievous

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

#been #dreary #escape #idleness #itself