Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Taxes are what we pay for civilized society."
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."
Albert Einstein
"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
John Maynard Keynes
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward."
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."