To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." (Quote by - H. E. Martz)

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. (Quote by - John Maynard Keynes)

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed. (Quote by - Bernard Berenson)

Taxes are the sinews of the state. (Quote by - Cicero)

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. (Quote by - Arthur Godfrey)

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes. (Quote by - Anonymous)

Death and taxes are inevitable. (Quote by - Thomas C. Haliburton)

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. (Quote by - Van Panopoulos)

The tax collector must love poor people--he's creating so many of them. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)

When there's a single thief, it's robbery. When there are a thousand thieves, it's taxation. (Quote by - Vanya Cohen)

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of. (Quote by - Andy Rooney)

Taxation with representation ain't so hot either. (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? (Quote by - Peg Bracken)

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose. (Quote by - William Simon)

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta. (Quote by - Dave Barry )

Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy. (Quote by - Steven LaTourette)

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some. (Quote by - Martin A. Sullivan)

Taxes grow without rain. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. (Quote by - James Madison)