Plaintiff's Quotes

#1. You have both contested well: the one is forced by his sorrow to lament, the other by the plaintiff's attack to tell the truth. So plaintiff, yours is the honour! And Death, yours is the victory! Every man is obliged to give his life to Death, his body to the earth, and his soul to Us.

Johannes Von Saaz

#2. This case reminds me of one in which I likened the Plaintiff's case to a colander, because it was so full of holes.

George Jessel

#3. We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there is no subject so trivial that it will not grow to infinite proportions if one's entire attention is devoted to it.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. The judge's massive eyebrows crept up. "Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today?"
"Yes, Your Honor."
"Well, shit," Dobe said. "I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.

Ilona Andrews

#6. The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

Ralph Nader

#7. What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux

#8. We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

David Souter

#9. Are you burdened with this day's sins? Here is a fountain filled with blood: Use it, saint, use it. Has

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher
will not indicate a favoring wind,
or avert the thunderbolt.

Charles Olson

#11. It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.

Richard Dawkins

#12. No matter the deviation, all things come full circle. You begin and end your journey in the same place, but with a different set of eyes. - Abram

Jennifer DeLucy

#13. In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.

Narayan

#14. Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

Dick Cavett

#15. The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.

James Richardson

#16. When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Michael Bloomberg

#17. The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

Saadi

#18. A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.

William Shakespeare

#21. The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.

Mason Cooley

#22. Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

E.W. Howe

#23. We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

St. Jerome

#24. Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.

David Ignatius

#25. The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart.

Frederick Romilly

#26. Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges;
but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether
the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner,
would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

George Bernard Shaw