The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. – William Simon Category: Taxes
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: animals have instincts, we have taxes. – Erving Goffman Category: Taxes
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Category: Taxes
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. – Barry Goldwater Category: Taxes
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle Category: great
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. – Anthony Trollope Category: Happiness
What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is. – Maurice Sendak Category: respect
Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men. – Sophocles Category: Future