Famous quotes containing the words pay and/or tax:
“The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)