Go Premium
Support Quotosaurus while enjoying an ad-free experience and premium features.
View Plans“ ”We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.
About Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow (18 April 1857 – 13 March 1938) was an American lawyer, most famous for having defended teenaged thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks (1924), and for defending John T. Scopes in the so-called "Monkey" Trial (1925), opposing William Jennings Bryan.
Biography information from Wikiquote
Additional quotes by Clarence Darrow
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades.