Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

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

Caplan, Mortimer

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

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

Miller, Olin

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

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

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

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

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

12.

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

Friedman, Shelby

13.

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

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

Caesar, Tiberius

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

17.

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

18.

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

19.

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

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Sumner, Gordon

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

Braun, Wernher Von

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

Landau, Saul

25.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

27.

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

Reagan, Ronald

28.

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

29.

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

Vaughan, Bill

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Bush, George

32.

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

Churchill, Randolph

33.

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

34.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

35.

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

36.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

37.

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

Healey, Denis

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

40.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Limbaugh, Rush

41.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

King, Mackenzie

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Raymond, F. J.

44.

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Rogers, Will

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

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