Quotes
Quotes about Tax
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
Thence to the famous orators repair,
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece,
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore
A hungry lion give a grievous roar;
The grievous roar echoed along the shore.
Artax. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore
Another lion give a grievous roar;
And the first lion thought the last a bore.
No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains
To tax our labours and excise our brains.
The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.
Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
All zoos actually offer the public, in return for the taxes spent upon them, is a form of idle witless amusement, compared to which a visit to the state penitentiary, or even a state legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
