Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

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

- Churchill, Randolph

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

1.

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.

Proverb, American

2.

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Reagan, Ronald

6.

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

7.

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

Caesar, Tiberius

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Healey, Denis

12.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Bush, George

13.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Landau, Saul

16.

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

17.

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

Marx, Karl

18.

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.

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

21.

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

Burke, Edmund

22.

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

Raymond, F. J.

23.

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

King, Stephen

24.

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Miller, Olin

29.

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

Churchill, Randolph

30.

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

Bracken, Peg

31.

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

Helmsley, Leona

32.

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

Braun, Wernher Von

33.

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

Rogers, Will

34.

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

35.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Limbaugh, Rush

36.

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

Twain, Mark

37.

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

38.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

King, Mackenzie

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Greek

41.

Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.

Friedman, Shelby

42.

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

Berenson, Bernard

43.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.