They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.


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JACKIE EARLE HALEY
That transition from child to adult actor is so incredibly elusive. The roles that were coming to me...
JACKIE EARLE HALEY
I bite the hell out of my fingernails. I can't stop. I should stop. It would be nice to grow my ...
JACKIE EARLE HALEY
When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sens...
JACKIE EARLE HALEY
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE
To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE
In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
GEORGE EARLE BUCKLE
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the P...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny thi...
DAVID W. EARLE
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and ne...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by m...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cher...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no great...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and re...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forwa...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutti...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return vo...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The key problem I encounter working with wounded, depressed, and unhappy people is a lack of connect...
DAVID W. EARLE
The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-hous...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, whe...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the b...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North a...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
DAVID W. EARLE
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
ALICE MORSE EARLE
The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.
DAVID W. EARLE
From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first publ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
REAL people do not
have to lie, exaggerate, or brag for they are self-contained in self-unders...
DAVID W. EARLE
Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad star...
SYLVIA A. EARLE
Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received ...
DAVID W. EARLE
I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century...
ALICE MORSE EARLE
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-song...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE