Lawsuit

"LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones."

"LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Val més mala avinença que bona sentencia. (Catalan)"

"Kratka sprava je bolši kakor dolga pravda. (Croatian)"

"Krátké porovnání lepŝí, než dlouhé sporování. (Czech)"

"A l'è mej un cativ accordi ch'una bona sentessa. (Piedmontese)"

"Khudoi mir luchshe dobroy ssory. (Russian)"

"Krátka správa lepšia ako dlhá pravda. (Slovak)"

"A piece of paper blown by the wind among lawyers must in the end be drawn out again by two oxen."

"Officium officialium, quorum te numero aggregasti, hodie est, jura confundere, suscitare lites, transactiones rescindere, innectere dilationes, suprimere veritatem, fovere mendacium, quaestum sequi, aeqitatem vendere, inhiare exactionibus, versutias concinnare."

"Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."

"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."

"Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser — in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peacemaker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. Who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket? A moral tone ought to be infused into the profession which should drive such men out of it."

""Lawsuit mania"… a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party."

"O Spirit of litigation, know, When we keep silent in this season, The stem of multiple lilies grew Too large to be contained by reason"

"Sometimes nonsensical lawsuits are generated by lawyers. In this country (the United States everybody sues everybody."

"Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. ... Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry."

"No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch."

"As one gets older, litigation replaces sex."

"When the motto for the year 2001 is "Innovation Followed by Litigation" you know who the biggest winners are - the lawyers."

"Englishmen may have been law-abiding, but they have not been unlitigious."

"Though every attempt to shorten litigation is entitled to the favour of the Court,1 yet before we stop a party in a regular course of proceeding, we ought to be certain that we shall not deprive him of that justice which the law authorizes him to seek."

"The law is too tenacious of private peace, to suffer litigations to be negotiable."

"Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive."

"Expedit reipublicie ut sit finis litium: It is for the public good that there be an end of litigation."

"Debet estefinit litium: There ought to be an end of law suits."