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Taxation
To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to bewise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
The art of taxation consists is so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Of all debts men are least wiling to pay the taxes. What a satire is this government! Everywhere they think they get their money’s worth, except for these.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.
Harry L. Hopkins
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Teaching
You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.
BROWNING, ROBERT
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
Teachers who educated children deserved more honour than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.
Aristotle
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb
Who dares to teach must never cease to larn.
John Cotton Dans
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
J. L. NEHRU
Television
I invite you to sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air.. and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.
Newton N. Minow
Unless and until there is unmistakable proof to the contrary, the presumption must be that television is and will be main factor in influencing the values and moral standards of our society ….
Pilkington Report
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste, and end by debauching it.
Pilkington Report
Thought
Perish the thought!
CIBBER, COLLEY
I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.
GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
This very remarkable man
Commends a most practical plan;
You can do what you want
If you don’t think you can’t
So, don’t think you can’t think you can.
INGE, CHARLES
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
IRVING, WASHINGTON
A boy’s will is the wind’s will.
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Others apart sat on a hill retired in thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high.
MILTON, JOHN
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight,
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
POPE, ALEXANDER
With too much quickness ever to be taught;
With too much thinking to have common thought.
POPE, ALEXANDER
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
ALFRED TENNYSON
They use thought only to warrant their injustice, and employ words only to conceal their thoughts.
VOLTAIRE
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
The principal challenge before us remains the socio-economic development of our people.
MANMOHAN SINGH
Time
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again just for to-night !
AKERS, ELIZABETH CHASE
Come in the evening, or come in the morning,
Come when you’re looked for, or come without warning.
DAVIS, THOMAS OSBORNE
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
DISRAELI, BENJAMIN
Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
DOBSON, HENRY AUSTIN
All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.
HAZLITT, WILLIAM
Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?
HODGSON, RALPH
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
KIPLING, RUDYARD
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered, for they are gone for ever.
MANN, HORACE
It takes three generations to make a gentleman.
PEEL, SIR ROBERT
Fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.
J. L. NEHRU
Time travels in diverse paces with diverse persons. I’ll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal and who he stands still withal.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
But meanwhile it is flying, time is flying that cannot be recalled.
VIRGIL
Treason
Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason? For it prosper, none dare call it treason.
HARINGTON, SIR JOHN
Pension—An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Trust
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercise a public trust.
CLEVELAND, STEPHEN GROVER
Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
FIELDING, HENRY
Trust no future, however pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, act in the living present!
Heart within, and God overhead!
LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH
Courage, brother! do not stumble,
Though thy path be dark as night;
There’s a star to guide the humble;
‘Trust in God, and do the right.’
MACLEOD, NORMAN
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trust in the milk.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
WILDE, OSCAR
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will themselves great.
Ralph Emerson
Truth
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
ARNOLD, MATTHEW
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
GOLDSMITH, OLIVER
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY
This mournful truth is every where confessed
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
MILTON JOHN
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
MILTON, JOHN
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
NEWTON, SIR ISSAC
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth.
Unknown
Son, always tell the truth. Then you will never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN
You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival….because when you are unhappy, you also throw unhappiness all around.
OSHO