In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. (Quote by - Tiberius Caesar)

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. (Quote by - Joe E. Lewis)

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (Quote by - J. B. Colbert)

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. (Quote by - Denis Healey)

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. (Quote by - Rush Limbaugh)

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. (Quote by - F. J. Raymond)

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

There is no such thing as a good tax. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)

Only the little people pay taxes. (Quote by - Leona Helmsley)

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

The taxpayer that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. (Quote by - Plato)

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. (Quote by - Herman Wouk)

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

Read my lips. No new taxes! (Quote by - George Bush)

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The power to tax involves the power to destroy. (Quote by - John Marshall)