A Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do much worse than the funds - or the market.

Kenneth Fisher

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

George Washington

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

Mark Twain

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin

What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.

Louise Rennison

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Benjamin Franklin

It does, Tennyson, because there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you’re on the wrong side of both lines.

Neal Shusterman

I feel fine in St Petersburg, my family is fine and my son is fine.

Hulk

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

Benjamin Franklin

I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

Iain Duncan Smith

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

Nancy Reagan

Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.

George Washington

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

Tyler, The Creator

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

Benjamin Franklin

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