Jon Cryer Quotes

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

Nobody likes going to court.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

In India, nobody sues anybody.

Lawsuits take a long time.

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.

You always make somebody mad when you decide a lawsuit.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

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.

Disputes arising out of the application or interpretation of this Treaty shall be resolved by negotiations. Any such disputes which cannot be settled by negotiations shall be resolved by conciliation or submitted to arbitration.

The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.

I know from my own experience that lawsuits can be a very slow, wasteful, and needlessly acrimonious way to resolve a problem.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

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.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

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

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations.

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

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.