William Henry Maule famous quotes

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.
-- William Henry Maule

#Damage #Cost #Peg

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

#Strong #Eye #Men

As the crow flies"-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
-- William Henry Maule

#Expression #Crow #Lines

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.
-- William Henry Maule

#Morning #Men #Might

If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.
-- William Henry Maule

#Wine #Mean #Men

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
-- William Henry Maule

#Liberty #Favour #Construction

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.
-- William Henry Maule

#Law #Justice #Fiction

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

#Law #Judging #Majesty

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
-- William Henry Maule

#Expression #Crow #Lines

Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians.

No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.