Famous quotes containing the words pay and/or tax:
“We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for then we are caught by surprise. It ought to be the other way about.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)