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.

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

2.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

3.

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

4.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

King, Mackenzie

5.

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

Proverb, American

6.

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

Vaughan, Bill

7.

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

8.

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

Rogers, Will

9.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

11.

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

Caesar, Tiberius

12.

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

Raymond, F. J.

13.

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

14.

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

Braun, Wernher Von

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

17.

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

O'Malley, Austin

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

22.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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.

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

Friedman, Shelby

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Healey, Denis

28.

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

Berenson, Bernard

29.

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

30.

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

Helmsley, Leona

31.

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

Caplan, Mortimer

32.

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

33.

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

34.

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

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.

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

Horton, Doug

38.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

39.

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

Proverb, Greek

40.

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

Rogers, Will

41.

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

Bracken, Peg

42.

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

Miller, Olin

43.

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

Reagan, Ronald

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Bush, George

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

King, Stephen

49.

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

50.

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

Sumner, Gordon