Quotes #6 ================================================ The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual purit that carries any reward. ( John Maynard Keynes ) ================================================ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ( Edith Sitwell ) ================================================ ================================================ I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank. ( Milton Berle) ================================================ The word syntax scares my son. How can he pay the tax when he can't even afford to put gas in his car ? ( Milton Berle ) ================================================ ================================================ The one thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. ( Thomas Robert Dewar ) ================================================ At the beginning of the empire, the tax rates were low and the revenues were high. At the end of the empire, the tax rates were high and the revenues were low. ( Irn Khaldun ( 1332 - 1400 )) ================================================ ================================================ The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing. ( Jean - Baptiste Colbert ) ================================================ I don't want to complain but every time they build a tax structure, the first thing they nail is me !!! ================================================ ================================================ If my home is my Castle, why does it seem that the IRS is collecting for the entire empire ??? New Meaning to one stop shopping ??? Perhaps, a new form of Syntax. ( Frank ) ================================================ The other day the IRS stopped by my office for a quick audit and the fellow stated, "Your books are a Joke." I replied, "I'm glad you think so; my readers may disagree." ( Bad Joke from Frank ) ================================================ ================================================ Income Tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf. ( Will Rogers ) ================================================ Lord the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one third the money twenty years ago. ( Will Rogers ) ================================================ ================================================ In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. ( Confucius ( 500 B.C. ) ================================================ ================================================ The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ( Frank "Kin" Hubbard ) ______________________________________________________ Funny how a dollar can look so big when you take it to church and so small when you take it to the store. (Frank Clark ) ================================================ ================================================ There are only two ways to successfully cope with teenagers; self - control and birth control. ================================================ ================================================ George Raft earned and disposed of about ten million dollars in the course of his career. "Part of the loot went for gambling," he explained, "part for the horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly." ================================================ ================================================ Always live within your income, even if you have to barrow money to do so. ( Josh Billings ) ================================================ ================================================ Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself. I never saved a dollar until I was 40 years old. ( Henry Ford ) ================================================ ================================================ Yesterday I analyzed my paycheck. They deducted federal tax, state tax, city tax, Social Security, pension plan, medical plan, and union dues. I looked at the balance and now I know how an over - the - hill exhibitionist feels. There's nothing left to take out !! ================================================ ================================================ I replied to my lady friend, "That's a bit of an exaggeration. At this very moment I have enough money to last the rest of my life, as long as I picnic in Freeways, take long walks off of short piers, or, become a Rap Singer." ( Another Bad Frank Joke ) ================================================ ================================================ Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well. They have the same enemy -- the mother. ( Claudette Colbert ) ______________________________________________________ Money, to be worth striving for, must have blood and perspiration on it -- preferably that of some one else. ( Wilson Mizner ) ================================================ ============================================== I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill. ( Erma Bombeck ) ============================================== ============================================== Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become. ( Mary McGrory ) ============================================== ============================================== Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boasfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minust the shooting. ( George Orwell ) ============================================== Nothing but Jokes by Nauman Faridi