Axes Quotes - Page 3

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.

It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.

The centre of the universe and only rotates on its axis without going from east to west, is a very dangerous attitude and one calculated not only to arouse all Scholastic philosophers and theologians but also to injure our holy faith by contradicting the Scriptures.

If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

If I have sex, I know my quarterly estimated taxes must be due. And if it's oral sex, I know it's time to renew my driver's license.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

Pushers don't pay taxes.

Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.