Taxes, taxes, taxes

Why does a small tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? - Peg Bracken

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. - Andrew Jackson

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul’s support. - George Bernard Shaw

As seen on TV

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. - Carl Bernstein

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. - Robin Day

Body & Mind

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind. - Albert Einstein

Among wolves and robbers

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. - Thomas Jefferson

In general, the art of government consists of making as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

I am not worthy to untie the straps of His sandal

By humility I mean not the abjectness of a base mind, but the prudent care not to overvalue ourselves. - Nathaniel Crew

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. - T. S. Eliot

We never seem to have enough

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue. - George Horne

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. - Johann Friedrich von Schiller

Holiness

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life. - Jerry Bridges

Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection. - Eugene Kennedy