Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

In India, nobody sues anybody.

Have you ever been sued by a midget? It's not fun.

When 'The People's Court' came along, I had an opportunity to really teach people about law. It was very important to me.

Nobody likes going to court.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

The dispute is still before the judge.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.

300 million Americans every day decide to settle their disputes in courts of law rather than settle them in the streets with sticks and stones.

Neither the king nor any servant of his shall themselves cause a lawsuit to be begun, or hush up one that has been brought before them by some other man.

You always make somebody mad when you decide a lawsuit.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

there shall be in every court, three justices or commissioners, who shall sit with the twelve men of the neighborhood, with them to hear all causes, and to assist the said twelve men of the neighborhood in case of law; and that they the said justices shall pronounce such judgment as they shall receive from, and be directed by the said twelve men in whom only the judgment resides, and not otherwise.

Where matters of dispute are made the subject of arbitration under the forms of law. Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.