Green Tax Shift

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

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
    But shift away.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)