English Finance - Entry from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Courtesy of the LoveToKnow Corporation.
Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer - A late twelfth century essay concerning all that went on at the bi-yearly meetings of the medieval exchequer officials, and branches out into a description of all the sources of revenue of the English crown, and of the methods of collecting them. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
The English Revenue of Richard I - Article from the English Historical Review on the tax revenues received by Richard the Lionheart. Statistical data in included.
The Hearth Tax Project - The Hearth Tax was levied between 1662 and 1689 at the rate of two shillings per annum, on each hearth in a building. A project of Rohampton University's Centre for Research in English Local and Regional History.
The Taxatio Database - A database containing the valuation, plus related details, of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the ecclesiastical taxation assessment of 1291-2.
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Taxation "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Taxation
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Taxation He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Taxation
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Taxation "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Taxation
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Taxation Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Taxation
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Taxation Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Taxation
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Taxation "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Taxation
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Taxation A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Taxation
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Taxation With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Taxation
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Taxation "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Taxation
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Taxation "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Taxation
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Taxation "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Taxation
