Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old tax quotes, tax sayings, and tax proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!John Andrew Holmes
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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
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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.Alfred E. Neuman
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.Paula Poundstone
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No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.Rush Limbaugh
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There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.Robert A. Heinlein
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I am thankful for the taxes I pay because it means that I'm employed.Nancie J. Carmody
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.Albert Einstein
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.James Otis
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The taxpayer, that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.Ronald Reagan
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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.Winston Churchill
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Capital punishment: The income tax.Jeff Hayes
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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.Terry Pratchett
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Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.Martin Sullivan
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.Barry Goldwater
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.John Marshall
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.Jean Baptist Colbert
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You must pay taxes. But there's no law that says you gotta leave a tip.Morgan Stanley
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Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.Margaret Mitchell
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But in this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.Benjamin Franklin
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He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.Terry Pratchett
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You don't pay taxes-they take taxes.Chris Rock
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You don't pay taxes-they take taxes.Chris Rock
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Why isn't cutting government spending a viable alternative to maintaining high taxes?Ben Shapiro
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Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems.Romana Machado
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Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all... The scale of sheer robbery by corporate power is enormous.Noam Chomsky
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Working income is taxed at a higher rate than the non-working income.Munir Moon
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All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.Catherynne M. Valente