Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-04-21 Apr 21, 2005The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.~ John Maynard KeynesI'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.~ Arthur GodfreyThe only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.~ Mark Twain Apr 20, 2005A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.~ George Bernard ShawThe wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.~ Paula PoundstoneThe Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 -- to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.~ P. J. O'Rourke Apr 19, 2005Income taxes have made more liars out of the American people than golf.~ Will RogersThe secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.~ Groucho MarxWe contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~ Sir Winston Churchill Apr 18, 2005As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.~ Dave BarryThere are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.~ Franklin P. AdamsTaxation with representation ain't so hot either.~ Gerald Barzan Apr 15, 2005We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers... And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print