A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

-Austen,Jane
  Mansfield Park, ch.22.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^50  Mr Micawber. David Copperfield, ch.12.

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

-Hicks, SirJohn Richard
  Value and Capital (2nd edn).

Sir, I now pay you this exorbitant charge, but I must ask you to explain to Her Majesty that she must not in future look upon me as a source of income.

-Kemble, Charles
When reluctantly obliged to pay overdue income tax. Attributed.

If theTreasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury themat suitable depthsindisusedcoalmineswhich are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again†there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, thereal income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably becomea good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but as there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

We take it as a fundamental psychological rule of any modern community that, when its real income is increased, it will not increase its consumption by an 466 equal absolute amount.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

I started off in films as a kingöa French king, admittedly, but nevertheless a king in MarieAntoinetteöand stayed in that sort of income bracket.

-Morley, Robert
Quoted in The Best of Robert Morley (1981).

Expenditure rises to meet income.

-Parkinson, C(yril) Northcote
  The Law and the Profits, ch.1.

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

-Quine,Willard Van Orman
  Quiddities,'Gambling'.

The IncomeTax return has made more Liars out of the American people than Golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.

-Rogers,Will
  The Illiterate Digest,'Helping the Girls withTheir Income Taxes'.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The IntelligentWoman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

-Smith, Logan Pearsall
Afterthoughts,'Life and Human Nature'.