Top 61 Death Taxes Quotes
#1. As far as I can tell, there are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and someone deciding they don't love you anymore.
Ryan O'Connell
#2. Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
Seth Lloyd
#3. Some things in life are certain; death, taxes, and that your family will piss you off.
Melanie Finn
#4. There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.
T.L. Rese
#5. I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging ... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#6. Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret Mitchell
#7. Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
David Dixon
#8. But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
#9. Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.
Piers Anthony
#10. Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
Peter Drucker
#11. Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
Alison Owen
#12. It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes.
Karen Traviss
#13. The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
Mark Twain
#14. My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.
Thomas Dewey
#15. Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes," his grandmother replies bleakly. "Humans don't live in a vacuum; we're part of a larger pattern of life.
Charles Stross
#17. When the world changes, you have to adapt and change with it. It's not just death and taxes that we can always count on in life ... add 'change' to that mix. No matter what, tomorrow will always be a little bit different than today ...
Christopher Jones
#18. Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#20. Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?
Stephen Leather
#21. Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.
J. C. Watts
#22. No defeat, no surrender
Ain't no pockets in a shroud
There is nothing so sure in life as death and taxes
Ninette Kelly
#23. No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
James Caan
#24. Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.
Doc Hastings
#28. If you date, you will meet your share of weirdos and jerks. That is as sure as death and taxes.
Greg Behrendt
#30. The surest thing in the world is not death and taxes, it's death and eternity. Yet, we're so unconcerned.
Leonard Ravenhill
#31. You may as well tell our readers that death and taxes are coming back.
Dani Kollin
#32. He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn't happen to you every year.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry Goldwater
#34. Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.
Robert Quillen
#35. They say that nothing is certain but death and taxes, and I already screwed one of those up, so I better pay my taxes....
Edmund Alexander Sims
#37. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
#38. Death can only be profitable: there's no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
Anton Chekhov
#39. Young love is strong. First love is powerful. But what you don't know when you're young - what you can't know - is how long life actually is. And the only dependable thing about it, besides death and taxes, is change.
Emma Chase
#40. Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.
John Stossel
#41. You find that along with the culture of death go all kinds of other law-breaking: Not following good sanitary procedure, giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant, cheating on taxes, all these kinds of things.
Todd Akin
#42. In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
Doc Hastings
#43. It used to be that death and taxes alone were inevitable. Now there's shipping and handling.
Bert Murray
#44. Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.
Daniel Defoe
#45. Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
Eileen Wilks
#47. God, Quinn, you have no idea how permanent I'd like this to be. I'd like us to be Twinkies and cockroaches, death and taxes.
Penny Reid
#48. Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
Ruth Ann Minner
#49. In the blink of an eye, the fairytales told to children were as real as death and taxes. Vampires, shifters, trolls, demons and creatures of myth, were as real as the air we breathe.
L.A. Kennedy
#50. Indeed, it may most verily be said
That only death and taxes certain are.
Ian Doescher
#51. We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.
Erwin Griswold
#52. They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.
Steve Earle
#53. Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists ... but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Lafcadio Hearn
#54. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers
#55. There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.
Ragnar Tornquist
#57. Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
Bruce Dickinson
#59. But night came again, because night, like death and taxes, was inevitable.
Chloe Neill
#60. Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.
Tim Witherspoon
#61. He was conservative, especially on the abortion issue, and he was death on taxes; on the other hand, he had a Clintonesque attitude about women, and even a sense of humor about his own peccadilloes.
John Sandford
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