"As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”

“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”

“We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.”

“I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives...But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.”

“The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.”

“Taxes are indeed very heavy -We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness.Three times as much by our Pride.And four times as much by our Folly.”

“Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.”

“When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!”

“The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?”