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- The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The subspace W inherits the other 8 properties of V. And there aren't even any property taxes.
- J. MacKay, Mathematics 134b
- The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Sweating Out Taxes"
- The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox
- Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care? It's not his money.
- 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)
- 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
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