Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

Difference between life and death is your physical presence and absence

Utpal Dutta

Death always comes too early or too late.

English

If the bathroom and a brandy cannot help a man, then death is imminent.

Finnish

If we knew where death resided, we would never stay there.

Ghanaian

Three things come into the house uninvited: debts, age, and death.

German

An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.

Hebrew

One sip of wine is an antidote against death, cupfuls poison life.

Iranian

When a dead tree falls, the woodpeckers profit from his death.

Malawian

Death is not found behind mountains but right behind our shoulders.

Russian

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Turkish

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Lewis H. Lapham

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

Asterios Polyp

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

H. L. Mencken

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

Olin Miller

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Peter Camejo

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.

Paul O'Neill

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

Paul Ryan

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

Pat Toomey

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

Peter Welch

It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

Russ Carnahan