
“Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 2
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 10, Too Many Lawyers, p. 172.
“Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 2
“An unsatisfactory agreement is less harmful than a successful lawsuit.”
Pt. II, Lib. II, Ch. II.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
Source: From Freedom to Slavery (1996), Ch. 6 : The New King : Tyranny of the Corporate Core, p. 91
“Your lawsuit is such a crock of baloney.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn9XiHQBe1k
Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Dismissing a statement or case
“Only great men have great faults.”
Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands défauts.
Maxim 190.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“The fault is in the system and not in the men.”
see W Edwards Deming "Blame the process, not the people."
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 140
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
Not a Kerouac quote, but by Allen Ginsberg in his journal of 30 July 1947. Published in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, page 199.
Misattributed
“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.
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)