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- The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
- Jean Baptiste Colbert
- There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further.
- Wernher Von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that carries any reward.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- The point to remember is what the government gives it must first take away.
- John S. Coleman
- Why does a small tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and s substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
- Peg Bracken
- Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
- Erving Goffman
- 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 (1879 - 1935)
- Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not count, since here your are not lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from being unjustly seized.
- (Giovanni Morelli)
- Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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