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"Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. and did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals." »Will Rogers
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"[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better." »Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
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"I can't see myself changing nappies and cooking dinner for too long. I'm too independent to live off a man's earnings." »Manisha Koirala
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"Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be less than the expenditures (deficit). This will result in accumulated debt. An increasing government debt will result in higher interest payments, and less money available for socioeconomic development. To pay for the debt, the government will have to raise taxes, which will reduce the competitive position of the country in the global economy and chase investors away resulting in less economic activities and more job losses. In order to avoid higher unemployment and social instability, the government have to raise more debt to fund spending and welfare support by raising the interest rate which will increase the cost of money, reduce corporate profits and slow economic investments, thus resulting in more job losses and reduced government revenues, despite income tax increases. It is what I call a vicious economic cycle." »Med Jones
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"The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. and all I can say to them is read my lips No New taxes." »George Herbert Walker Bush
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"Over the long term, if government revenues continue to be less than the expenditures (deficit), then the economic health of the country worsens because this will result in accumulated debt. An increasing government debt will result in higher interest payments, and less money available for socioeconomic development. To pay for the debt, the government will have to raise taxes, which will reduce the competitive position of the country in the global economy and chase investors away resulting in less economic activities and more job losses. In order to avoid higher unemployment and social instability, the government have to raise more debt to fund spending and welfare support by raising the interest rate which will increase the cost of money, reduce corporate profits and slow economic investments, thus resulting in more job losses and reduced government revenues, despite income tax increases. It is what I call a vicious economic cycle." »Med Jones
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"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life." »Thomas Mann
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"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition." »Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
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"No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back." »John Holt
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"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Only the little people pay taxes." »Leona Helmsly
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"Read my lips--NO NEW TAXES!" »George Herbert Walker Bush, Nov. 1988
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"taxes are the price we pay for civilization." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward." »John Maynard Keynes
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"They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really." »Paula Poundstone, HBO stand-up routine
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"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward." »John Maynard Keynes
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"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward." »John Maynard Keynes
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"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?" »Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox
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"All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second." »Jim Fiebig
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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages." »H.L. Mencken
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"The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling." »Paula Poundstone
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"The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." »James Dale Davidson
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"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." »H. E. Martz
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"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."" »H. E. Martz
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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." »Arthur Godfrey
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"I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes." »Erving Goffman
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