金钱Finance/Money[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-15 06:13:02

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The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite1 tax tip is that you should print neatly2. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...
-- Dave Barry

 

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton

 

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi

 

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein

 

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford3

 

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford

 

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey

 

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate4, 1989

 

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery5 whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz

 

I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane

 

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben

 

We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford

 

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde

 

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely6 precious things that cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde

 

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings

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1 dynamite rrPxB     
n./vt.(用)炸药(爆破)
参考例句：
  • The workmen detonated the dynamite.工人们把炸药引爆了。
  • The philosopher was still political dynamite.那位哲学家仍旧是政治上的爆炸性人物。
2 neatly ynZzBp     
adv.整洁地，干净地，灵巧地，熟练地
参考例句：
  • Sailors know how to wind up a long rope neatly.水手们知道怎样把一条大绳利落地缠好。
  • The child's dress is neatly gathered at the neck.那孩子的衣服在领口处打着整齐的皱褶。
3 Ford KiIxx     
n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过
参考例句：
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。
4 inmate l4cyN     
n.被收容者；(房屋等的)居住人；住院人
参考例句：
  • I am an inmate of that hospital.我住在那家医院。
  • The prisoner is his inmate.那个囚犯和他同住一起。
5 lottery 43MyV     
n.抽彩；碰运气的事，难于算计的事
参考例句：
  • He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery.他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。
  • They thought themselves lucky in the lottery of life.他们认为自己是变幻莫测的人生中的幸运者。
6 infinitely 0qhz2I     
adv.无限地，无穷地
参考例句：
  • There is an infinitely bright future ahead of us.我们有无限光明的前途。
  • The universe is infinitely large.宇宙是无限大的。

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