Will Rogers Quotes

The avoidance of tax may be lawful, but it is not yet a virtue.

Normal people, who can be good people but do bad things, are very interesting to me, and people that never get a parking ticket or never do a bad thing in their lives can be really dangerous.

What 'True Blood' does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

I think it's a little unfair for people to say you're not paying your fair share of taxes. I'm paying what I'm supposed to pay. Change the law, and I'll pay what I'm supposed to pay.

I did steal socks, but I got caught... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.

Choices of right or wrong are not presented to you in black and white. If they were, I'm sure most people would choose white.

Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field.

Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some [tax] violation

Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs so as to make taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor, and do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more taxes than the law demands. Taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions.

I love that Barry Seal is working for the CIA, and he's an awful liar. It just goes to how honest this character is at the end of the day, even as he rips off the country and the world to the tune of becoming one of the wealthiest men in America. There's an innate honesty, a purity to him.

I pay my taxes.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

Sometimes there are good reasons to do bad things.