Income Quotes

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

They had to pick a transaction register which had their occupation, marital status, number of children, net income and the amount saved for a home. That's what they had to live off. The goal is to see if they can live on their net income and to show them the more education they have, the better prepared they'll be financially.

Ten billion dollars less of deficit means $10 billion less of disposable income ... and a loss of at least 100,000 jobs.

Our portfolio remains slightly below duration. But then, the entire fixed-income universe has been defensively positioned for months now.

It's clear that income makes people happier. That's strongest for the lower levels of income.

Operating income, excluding recent acquisitions, grew four times faster than sales.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.

It's absolutely a low-income and minority problem. We saw a lot of disease in high-income people too, but if you don't have the insurance to go to the dentist, or if you have public insurance but the reimbursement rates are so low the dentists won't accept you, then some of those parents might not take their children at all.

use a thousand ways to boost rural income and decrease peasants' burden.

For most fishermen, salmon is critical for a major portion of their income. This is a killer. This is a fishery that's a century old and this is the first time to my knowledge that it would be totally closed.

I am such a strong admirer and supporter of George W. Bush that if he suggested eliminating the income tax or doubling it, I would vote yes on first blush.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

For too many, to work means having less income.

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.