Green Tax Shift

Famous quotes containing the words green, tax and/or shift:

    “Who are the violets now
    That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 18:13.

    “I will use the world and sift it,
    To a thousand humors shift it,
    As you spin a cherry.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)