Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. - Art Buchwald, 1925 - 2007

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. - Mae West, 1893 - 1980

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers, 1879 - 1935

Remember still that you are both diseased persons, full of infirmities; and therefore expect the fruit of those infirmities in each other; and make not a strange matter of it, as if you had never known of it before. If you had married one that is lame, would you be angry at her for [limping]? Or if you had married one that had a putrid ulcer, would you fall out with her because it stinketh? Did you not know beforehand, that you married a person of such weakness, as would yield you some manner of daily trial and offense? If you could not bear this, you should not have married her; if you resolved that you could bear it then, you are obliged to bear it now. Resolve therefore to bear with one another; as remembering that you took one another as sinful, frail, imperfect, persons, not as angels, or as blameless and perfect .- Richard Baxter, A Christian Directory from Baxter’s Practical Works: v. 1, p. 125.

To realize God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.- Francois Fenelon