Income Quotes - Page 4

• Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Matter, Temperament, Artistic Temperament

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!

  Nat King Cole

  Figures, Taxes, Just One

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• I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.

  Jodi Rell

  Support, Low Income, Dollars

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• I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

  James MacArthur

  Risk, Growth, Age

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• Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

  Max Frisch

  House, Citizens, Levels

  Max Frisch (1962). “Three plays: The fire raisers, Count Oederland [and] Andorra”

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• I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

  Chris Cooper

  Couple, Real, House

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• Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

  Donna Brazile

  Office, African American, Wages

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• In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Elderly, Facts

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• The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Low Income, Poverty, Problem

  "Public papers of Nelson A. Rockefeller: fifty-third governor of the State of New York".

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• The actual growth in a person's life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

  Anuj

  Growth, Pay, Life Is

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• You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

  Max Baucus

  Worry, Care, Medicaid

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• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

  Dee Hock

  Law, Substance, Affinity

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• You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

  Bill Kurtis

  Track, Needs, Honest

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• The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

  Kim Young-sam

  Jobs, Cutting, Reality

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• I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.

  Charles M. Vest

  Littles, Financial, Aids

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Expenditures rise to meet income.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Survival, Expenditures

  The Law and the Profits ch. 1 (1960)

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• Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Telephones

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

  George William Curtis

  Anger, Men, Indulge In

  GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1868). “PRUE AND I”, p.126

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• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Zero, Funny Life, Business

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs (p. 264), 2004.

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• A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

  Joe Manchin

  Children, Race, Parent

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• Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

  Hermann Weyl

  Couple, Book, Math

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• On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

  Tom Lehrer

  Three, Blind, Checks

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• The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.

  Dennis Prager

  Respect, Responsibility, Punishment

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• Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

  Mike Royko

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baseball

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• Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

  Thomas Sowell

  Might, Pay, April

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