Death and taxes
Death and taxes.
The quote is "The only thing certain is death and taxes." and Benjamin Franklin said it.
Dragging this heavy load really taxes my energy. The only sure things in life are death and taxes.
No. There are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. If you don't pay your taxes, they (the taxing body) will find you and get payment.
Benjamin Franklin is credited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) with saying "...in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy dated 13 November 1789.
Ben Franklin's quote "but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes." ^ | | This statement is untrue. Although Benjamin Franklin DID state this in a letter to French physicist and writer, Jean- Baptiste Leroy. Daniel Defoe, in fact, said the statement, " Things as certain as death and taxes can be more firmly believed." Proving the above statement wrong.
Only by death
You're own mind is the only thing that is, for certain, true. The ultimate thing that is true in life is death every other thing could simply be figments of your imagination.
What a question of course is worth money the only thing that is free is taxes and death both are not in high demand
Edward Ward in his 1724 'Dancing Devils' where he wrote 'Death and Taxes, they are certain.' Then there was Christopher Bullock had written in his 'Cobbler of Preston' (1716), ''Tis impossible to be sure of anything but death and taxes!'
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