Taxes Quotes

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox

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

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsly

They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.

Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

H. L. Mencken

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

All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

H. L. Mencken

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Read my lips - - NO NEW TAXES!

George Herbert Walker Bush, Nov. 1988

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

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

H. L. Mencken