The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes... -- Dave BarryThe honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. ChestertonA dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John CiardiThe hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert EinsteinIf money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry FordThe highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry FordI'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur GodfreyEverything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOnly the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran LebowitzI owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShaneEvery day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert OrbenWe haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord RutherfordIt is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar WildeOrdinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar WildeI'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings