Motivational Quotes

Taxes and taxation

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Taxes and taxation

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

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

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

Proverb, Greek

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

Caesar, Tiberius

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

Braun, Wernher Von

The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.

King, Mackenzie

Only little people pay taxes.

Helmsley, Leona

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

King, Stephen

10.

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

11.

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

Sumner, Gordon

12.

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

13.

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

Bracken, Peg

14.

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

Helmsley, Leona

15.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

Berenson, Bernard

17.

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

Churchill, Randolph

18.

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

Vaughan, Bill

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.

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

21.

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

Rogers, Will

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.

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

Landau, Saul

24.

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

Friedman, Shelby

25.

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

Dewar, Thomas Robert

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Horton, Doug

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Limbaugh, Rush

33.

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

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of

34.

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

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Proverb, American

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Raymond, F. J.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Miller, Olin

43.

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

Healey, Denis

44.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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