25 Inspirational Quotes About Taxes

In this world, nothing is certain except death, taxes and "inspirational quotes" 

Taxes got you feeling blue? Don't despair! Here are a slew of famous (and not so famous) quotes to make your tax season a bit less taxing. Enjoy!

1.    Al Capone: "They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money."

2.    Albert Bushnell Hart: "Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized."

3.    Albert Einstein: "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."

4.    Alfred E. Neuman: "Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income."

5.    Andrew Cuomo: "New York State is upside down and backward; high taxes and low performance."

6.    Anonymous: "A fine is a tax for doing something wrong. A tax is a fine for doing something right."

7.    Anonymous: "A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it."

8.    Anonymous: "Of life's two certainties, the only one for which you can get an automatic extension."

9.    Anonymous: "People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women."

10.                       Anonymous: "The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them."

11.                       Arthur C. Clarke: "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."

12.                       Arthur Godfrey: "I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money."

13.                       Austin O'Malley: "In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin."

14.                       Barack Obama: "We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States."

15.                       Barry Goldwater: "The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government."

16.                       Bauvard: "Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks."

17.                       Benjamin Franklin: "Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes."

18.                       Bill Archer: "We must care for each other more, and tax each other less."

19.                       Bob Dole: "The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place."

20.                       Bob Thaves: "I don't know if I can live on my income or not--the government won't let me try it."

21.                       Bonnie Raitt: Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet--nobody taxes the sun yet."

22.                       Calvin Coolidge: "Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery."

23.                       Chris Rock: "You don't pay taxes--they take taxes."

24.                       Dan Bennett: "There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure."

25.                       Dave Barry: "Congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by staff tax nerds who can put pretty much any wording they want in there. I bet that if you actually read the entire vastness of the U.S. Tax Code, you'd find at least one sex scene."

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