#pa

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. ↗

— Menander

#all things #despair #diligence #diligently #labor

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. ↗

— Menander

#fig #i #spade

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#his #judge #law #marks #own

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#crazy #device #ignorant #making #more

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#by the time #candidates #day #each #election

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#individuals #made #original #probably #society

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#conscience #evil #parents #penance #prison

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#another #any #beings #bore #capacity