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- Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
- Jim Fiebig
- All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
- 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 (1880 - 1956)
- Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
- One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
- Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
- Theophile Gautier
- The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal
- Sir Compton MacKenzie
- When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.
- Spalding Gray, from Swimming to Cambodia: The collected works of Spalding Gray
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