Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

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

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

1.

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

Raymond, F. J.

2.

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

3.

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

4.

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

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.

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

7.

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

Friedman, Shelby

8.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Twain, Mark

9.

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

10.

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

Caesar, Tiberius

11.

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

Horton, Doug

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Caplan, Mortimer

14.

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

15.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Bush, George

16.

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

Helmsley, Leona

17.

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

Berenson, Bernard

18.

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

Healey, Denis

19.

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

Miller, Olin

20.

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

21.

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

Bracken, Peg

22.

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

23.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Cobbett, William

24.

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.

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

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

27.

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

Vaughan, Bill

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

33.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

34.

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

Churchill, Randolph

35.

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

36.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

37.

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

Proverb, Greek

38.

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

39.

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

Landau, Saul

40.

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

O'Malley, Austin

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

44.

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

Proverb, American

45.

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

46.

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

Rogers, Will