Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.

Ned Zachar

I don't envy the FCC's job here. This is an incredibly tricky decision.

Richard Whately

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

Truman Capote

It is very seldom that a person loves anyone they cannot in some way envy.

William Shenstone

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Robert Ringer

The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.

Samuel Johnson

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Samuel Johnson

All envy is proportionate to desire.

William Hogarth

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

rahul jaiswal

the only things in this world which are never satisfied are WOMEN and GREED...

Sen. Lundby

I think it's just greed and power at its very worst.

Scott Bogumil

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

Edward Fagan

I think they were greedy, heartless, insensitive, unprofessional, unethical.

Michael MacCambridge

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Reid Hoffman

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Roald Dahl

I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.

Richard Rogers

Today is much more an age of greed

Robert Redford

It's all about greed and money and it's the driving force in Hollywood.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Walter Wriston

Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

Tim Pape

Taxation without representation? No, they're getting taxed, and they're getting represented.

Margaret Thatcher

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

James Madison

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

Frank Chodorov

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

Frank Chodorov

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.