Maule Quotes

#1. Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

William Henry Maule

#2. Intelligence and love are not in separate compartments: love is rich in intelligence and intelligence is full of love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

Lena Dunham

#4. I don't enjoy playing video golf because there is nothing to throw.

Paul Azinger

#5. Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

William Henry Maule

#6. Nature is monstrously unjust. There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

Aldous Huxley

#7. Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

David Eddings

#8. After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

William Henry Maule

#9. What's that you mutter to yourself, Matthew Maule?" asked Scicpio. "And what for do you look so black at me?"
"No matter, darky," said the carpenter. "Do you think nobody is to look black but yourself?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#10. Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

William Henry Maule

#11. I loved dancing the tango at the 1994 Nurses Ball Talent Show. I thought I'd be dancing with Brad Maule (Tony) but the writers revved up the passion by pairing me with Leigh McCloskey, my lover Damian. During dress rehearsal, for a goof, Leigh and Brad ran into each others arms instead!

Jacklyn Zeman

#12. But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

Sue Miller

#13. As a long-time registered Democrat who started voting in the year of Watergate, I resent being taken for a ride to the place where anything goes and nothing matters. And especially where nothing matters less than clear thinking and straight talk.

James Howard Kunstler

#14. In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.

William Henry Maule

#15. One thing that kept me from being unhappy was the mountains, for with mountaintops to see, a body can't quite despair.

Florence Maule Updegraff

#16. As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

William Henry Maule

#17. The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

Akkineni Nagarjuna

#18. But Jesus isn't rocking a cardigan, and he doesn't talk softly through his nose. He's a roaring lion.

Jefferson Bethke

#19. Three thousand bodies swing forward, three thousand pairs of boots snap together, three thousand backs jerk as if yanked straight by a puppeteer's hand. In the ensuing silence, you could hear a tear drop.

Sabaa Tahir

#20. Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.

Michael Chabon

#21. An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

William Henry Maule

#22. And how he'd asked me to expand on the seamless intercourse between government bodies, they all gasped.

Penny Reid

#23. When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

James Earl Jones