Axes Quotes - Page 2

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

To take photographs is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

I won't talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I'm glad I'm out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

A lot of really smart, wealthy people know that [slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn't worked.]

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Inflation is a form of tax, a tax that we all collectively must pay.