Famous quotes containing the words green, tax and/or shift:
“Therefore awake! make haste, I say,
And let us, without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the Park a-maying!”
—Unknown. Sister, Awake! (L. 912)
“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I will use the world and sift it,
To a thousand humors shift it,
As you spin a cherry.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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