Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

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

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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

Caesar, Tiberius

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

Raymond, F. J.

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

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

King, Mackenzie

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Limbaugh, Rush

10.

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

King, Stephen

11.

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

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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

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

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Read my lips: no new taxes.

Bush, George

16.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

17.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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.

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

21.

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

Healey, Denis

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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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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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No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Limbaugh, Rush

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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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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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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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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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We don't pay taxes. Only the 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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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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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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A fool and his money are soon parted. The rest of us wait for tax time.

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

Caplan, Mortimer

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Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona