 | Ambrose Bierce - English language - 1906 - 250 pages
...Calcraft the Hangman. 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. LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The... | |
 | Ambrose Bierce - 1911 - 394 pages
...Hangman. LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. T.ITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein - Political Science - 1989 - 364 pages
...potential scope for judicial intervention, was possibly augmented by the popular belief that litigation is "a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage." Bierce, Devil's Dictionary. more receptive to equal educational opportunity claims,... | |
 | Cartography - 1984 - 434 pages
...threatens the vitality of our forms of capitalism and democracy." Someone else said that a lawsuit is a machine which you go into as a pig, and come out of as a sausage. There is a Chinese proverb that goes like this: "He who wins his lawsuit will lose... | |
 | K. R. Hobbie - Humor - 1992 - 134 pages
...HOBBIE Illustrated by Lucy Corvino ( • Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. New York 90N2-UTS-GE16 Lawsuit, n. — a machine which you go into as a pig and come...as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary Edited by Laurel Omitz Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hobbie, KR World's wackiest... | |
 | Henri Abraham Wassenbergh, Tanja L. Masson-Zwaan, Pablo Mendes de Leon - Law - 1992 - 348 pages
...scourge. Ambrose Bierce, in his 1911 "Devil's Dictionary", described litigation rather graphically as "a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage", and the famed Judge Learned Hand, in a lecture to lawyers in New York, noted that... | |
 | Sharon Creeden - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 208 pages
...shell, We thrive in courthouses on fools like you. 'Twas a fat oyster; live in peace-Adieu." LITIGATION: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage. —Ambrose Bierce. Between 1881 and 1906, Bierce published his definitions in newspapers and The Cynic's Word Book. Avoid... | |
 | Arthur D. Austin - Law - 1998 - 235 pages
...is traceable at least back to Bismarck. It was also included in Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary: "Litigation, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage." This revelation opens up a variety of interpretations; it may have been nothing more than a lapse,... | |
 | Frank R. Shivers - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 348 pages
...reading for their mordant view, conveyed in crisp style. Take, for example, his definition of lawsuit: "A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage." We might deduce from the examples of Bierce and Adams that living in Washington generally aggravated... | |
 | Duncan L. Clore - Business & Economics - 1998 - 756 pages
...dispute resolution. In his 1906 Devil's Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce defined litigation as: "A machine you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage." Bierce also defined a Plaintiff as "The court fool" and appeal as "To put the dice into the box for... | |
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LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. 
