Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

- King, Mackenzie

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

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

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

Miller, Olin

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Caesar, Tiberius

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

Friedman, Shelby

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

Landau, Saul

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

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Churchill, Randolph

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

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Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

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

King, Stephen

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

Burke, Edmund

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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

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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

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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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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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