Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

Read my lips: no new taxes.

- Bush, George

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.

The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.

Reagan, Ronald

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

King, Stephen

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

Lewis, Joe E.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Limbaugh, Rush

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Raymond, F. J.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

O'Malley, Austin

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

Caesar, Tiberius

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.

Coan, Nonnee

10.

Taxes and golf are alike, you drive your heart out for the green, and then end up in the hole.

11.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Bush, George

12.

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

13.

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

Proverb, Greek

14.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Healey, Denis

15.

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide.

Caplan, Mortimer

16.

Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

17.

Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted.

18.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Rogers, Will

20.

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

21.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Rogers, Will

22.

It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed.

23.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

25.

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

Ruskin, John

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Taxes, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

27.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go further.

Braun, Wernher Von

28.

Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.

29.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Limbaugh, Rush

30.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Berenson, Bernard

31.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Burke, Edmund

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No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.

Churchill, Randolph

33.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Miller, Olin

34.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

Mitchell, Margaret

35.

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

Colbert, J. B.

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I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.

Godfrey, Arthur

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Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents.

Bracken, Peg

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Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.

Landau, Saul

39.

It's getting so that children have to be educated to realize that Damn and Taxes: are two separate words.

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.

Rogers, Will

42.

Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack until I have ironed out every fault in it.

Kellems, Vivien

43.

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

Sumner, Gordon

44.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Rogers, Will

45.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age -- which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Coward, Noel

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All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

47.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Twain, Mark

48.

The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.

Vaughan, Bill

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The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.