Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

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

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

1.

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

2.

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

Twain, Mark

3.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

4.

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

5.

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

Healey, Denis

6.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

7.

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

Vaughan, Bill

8.

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

Proverb, Greek

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

King, Stephen

15.

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

Landau, Saul

16.

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

Caesar, Tiberius

17.

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

O'Malley, Austin

18.

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

Braun, Wernher Von

19.

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

Raymond, F. J.

20.

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

21.

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

Caplan, Mortimer

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Horton, Doug

26.

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

27.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Limbaugh, Rush

28.

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

29.

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

Rogers, Will

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

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

Sumner, Gordon

32.

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

Burke, Edmund

33.

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

Bracken, Peg

34.

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

King, Mackenzie

35.

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

Friedman, Shelby

36.

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.

37.

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

Mencken, H. L.

38.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Miller, Olin

41.

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

Churchill, Randolph

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

45.

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

Rogers, Will

46.

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

Reagan, Ronald

47.

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.