Income Quotes

• We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

  Joe Scarborough

  Stupid, Giving, People

  "Big Hurdles Remain To A Deal In Budget Talks" by John King, www.cnn.com. July 20, 1997.

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  If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Business, Work

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• Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

  John Locke

  Funny, Money, Shoes

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• Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

  Hermann Weyl

  Couple, Book, Math

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• It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Witty, Money

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Zero, Funny Life, Business

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 264), 2004.

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• Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

  George William Curtis

  Anger, Men, Indulge In

  GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1868). “PRUE AND I”, p.126

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• On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

  Tom Lehrer

  Three, Blind, Checks

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• A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

  Joe Manchin

  Children, Race, Parent

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• The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  Dennis Prager

  Respect, Responsibility, Punishment

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• Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

  Mike Royko

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baseball

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• Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

  Thomas Sowell

  Might, Pay, April

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• It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

  John Sununu

  Senior, Giving, People

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• Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Pay, Corporations, Individual

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• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Money, Educational

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• There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

  Edmund Wilson

  Money, Adequate, Belief

  Edmund Wilson (1951). “Memoirs of Hecate County”

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• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

  Herman Wouk

  Book, Fiction, Taxation

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• The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

  Irving Fisher

  Links, Finance, Economy

  Irving Fisher (2007). “The Nature of Capital and Income”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Success, Money

  "Afterthoughts" by Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931.

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• After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Break Up, Breakup, Father

  Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.40, Wakefield Press

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• When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.185, Penguin

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• Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

  Diane Watson

  Retirement, Couple, Doe

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• I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

  Bill Budge

  Years, Apples, Half

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• According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

  Bob Riley

  Christian, Care, Ethics

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• Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Children, Race, Surfing

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