We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it. – John Sherman 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
The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. – John S. Coleman, address, Detroit Chamber of Commerce, 1956 Category: Taxes
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. – Herman Wouk Category: Taxes
The less I behave like Whistlers mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. – Tallulah Bankhead Category: Morning
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness — or so good as drink. – Lord Chesterton Category: Alcohol
Any idiot can face a crisis, its the day to day living that wears you out. – Anton Chekhov Category: Health