Deductions Quote by Laurence J. Peter Download Open image “Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, except when filling out an income tax form” — Laurence J. Peter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deductions Filling Form Income Income tax Irs Taxation Taxes Tests
There's a tradeoff. Yeah, I lose the deduction that I really like, but my tax rate is going to go down, and I don't… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it? — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
“Americans have perfected the questionable art of what Suzann Mettler, a professor at Cornell University calls "the submerged state." -- making government policies invisible… — Anu Partanen Copy Share Image
I've been written off more times than some of the government's tax returns but I just keep plodding along. — James Haskell Copy Share Image
The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply… — Kristi Noem Copy Share Image
As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive. — Jim Ramstad Copy Share Image
I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
I do not do my own taxes. It's too many forms. "Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea."I would be in jail. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except… — Kathie Lee Gifford Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image