"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax."
— Thomas Dewar
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
- Albert Einstein
“For every tax problem, there is a solution which is straightforward, uncomplicated-and wrong.”
“The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream”
– Bill Murray
"Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose more money than any single person in your life with the possible exception of your kids."
― Harvey Mackay
"Death, taxes, and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them."
― Margaret Mitchell
"If cigarette taxes are meant to discourage smoking, wouldn’t income taxes discourage working?"
"The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
- Will Rogers
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
- Will Rogers
"You don't pay taxes ― they take taxes."
― Chris Rock
[on filing for tax returns] "This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher."
- Albert Einstein
"Taxes grow without rain."
- Jewish Proverb
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
- Winston Churchill
“Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?”
– Peg Bracken
"An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt."
- Fred Allen