I have been torn about the theme of this month’s fresh quotes. At first I planned to do it on fools, as in April Fool, but at the last-minute I changed my mind and decided on taxes. As I write this, I find the two to be somehow pathetically linked.
A fool and his money are soon parted and I know some of us feel like fools after immersing ourselves in these inane and overcomplicated tax forms and to add injury to insult, we then shell out our hard-earned money for the privilege while some corporate fat cats pay nothing. It’s enough to pull one’s hair out! UGH!
I can only speak for Americans here but that dreaded day will be soon upon us and I better get on with it! I have a shoebox full of receipts and big bottle of aspirin, or would a bottle of Tequilla do it? Wish me luck….and while I am wading through this insane minutiae, take a gander at some quotes I have collected; perfect for the occasion…
~SBI
“Isn’t it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool’s Day…”
~Rob Knauerhase
“Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector…and miss.”
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”
“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
~Gore Vidal
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
― Albert Einstein
“Tomorrow you’re all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody’s high!”
― Stephen Colbert, I am America
I think you picked a perfect theme for April. I hope that your aspirin-or-tequilla inspired tax preparation went well. Mine are done…I get a whopping $9.00 back. And it will probably take at least ten times that for the IRS to process my return and send me the check. Oh, well…..
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Congratulations Janet…wow 9.00! How you got tight fisted Uncle Sam to part with that is amazing.
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Yes, I can hardly contain the thrill of it all 😉.
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Amazing quotes and images put together. It was a great experience to go through them all.
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Thanks Manu, you are so very kind. 🙂
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Nice one….
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Thanks Banking!
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The name is shwetal by the way 🙂 . Whats yours ?
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Hello Shwetal! I am Nancy, nice to meet you. 😀
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so what country you from ?
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The United States….and you?
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i am in India…
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I like how you say you are “Thinking through my fingers, giving life to words…” I have a few blogging friends in India.
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oh great .. are they on wordpress ? by the way u can add me on
shwetal14@gmail.com
shwetal143@yahoo.com
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if you are on gmail messenger you can add me on shwetal14@gmail.com. We can interact more there. 🙂
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Brilliant! Oh I loved this post! Have fun with the tax return… 😉
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Oh Cathy…thanks, I’ll have fun…haven’t dived in yet but will this weekend…YUCK! 😉
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Great armor to go into tax season with, SBI. I will have to return to this page right before I am writing out the check to the Franchise Tax Board. {{{hugs}}}Kozo
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Hey Kozo, The Franchise Tax Board….sounds scary, anything with tax or board scares me…… YIKES! {{{HUGS back}}} my friend.
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Bravo! Excellent! I’ve run out of superlatives!
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Thanks Miss Gunta!
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Yes, a fool and his money are soon parted, SBI!
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So So true Justine!
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I loved Stephen Colbert…and Robe Knauerhase…perfect expression of April’s start:)
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Thanks so much Niaaeryn, Colbert always makes me laugh…
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Really liked the “war is terrorism.. and ‘One day the poor will eat the rich.. Very good SBI.
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Thanks M, I have my edgy side you know…. N
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