Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or revenue:
“Eat what you can get.
Where’s the salt
in this dump of a village?
And, Lucky Man,
what’s the use
of a salty thing
if there’s no oil in it?”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)