Clarence Darrow

"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."

"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."

"I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose."

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means."