“Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn9XiHQBe1k
Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Dismissing a statement or case
“Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 2
Andrew Tobias (1947) American journalist
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 10, Too Many Lawyers, p. 172.
“An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.”
Mateo Alemán book Guzmán de Alfarache
Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. II.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) Flemish painter
In a letter to his friend Peiresc, May 1635, as quoted in 'La casa di Pietro Paolo Rubens a Roma', L'Opinione 245, 6 September, 1887
1625 - 1640
Paul Vixie (1963) American internet pioneer
IETF mailing list archive http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg30614.html
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003580.html
2010s, 2017
“Let me have a plump home-born slave, have a wife not too lettered, have night with sleep, have day without a lawsuit.”
Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies.
Martial book Epigrammata
Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno: sit sine lite dies.
II, 90 (Loeb translation).
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Judith Sheindlin (1942) American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1cYWq1bm_Q
Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Dismissing a statement or case
Simon Blackburn (1944) British academic philosopher
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 106