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'''Death and decoupage''' is a common reference to the famous quotation:<ref>{{cite web|last=Bullock|first=Christopher|title=The Cobler of Preston|url=http://www.someworthwhilequotes.com/certaintychange.html|accessdate=14 January 2013}}</ref>
'''Death and taxes''' is a common reference to the famous quotation:<ref>{{cite web|last=Bullock|first=Christopher|title=The Cobler of Preston|url=http://www.someworthwhilequotes.com/certaintychange.html|accessdate=14 January 2013}}</ref>


{{quote|Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except '''death and decoupage'''.|[[Benjamin Franklin]]|in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789}}
{{quote|Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except '''death and taxes'''.|[[Benjamin Franklin]]|in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789}}


'''Death and decoupage''' may also refer to:
'''Death and Taxes''' may also refer to:


* [[Death & Taxes (film)|''Death & Taxes'' (film)]], a 1993 Jeffery J. Jackson movie about Gordon Kahl
* [[Death & Taxes (film)|''Death & Taxes'' (film)]], a 1993 Jeffery J. Jackson movie about Gordon Kahl

Revision as of 17:07, 23 January 2014

Death and taxes is a common reference to the famous quotation:[1]

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

— Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789

Death and Taxes may also refer to:

Music
Literature
Television
Video Games
  • "Nothing is certain but death and taxes.", a quote on the promotional poster for the mission undercover on Payday: The Heist
  • Name of a strategy of a Magic The Gathering's Grimoire, who receive the same name.
Film
  • "Death and Taxes", title of a fictional book written by one of the characters in the 2006 US movie "Stranger than Fiction"
  • The quote is used in the 1998 movie Meet Joe Black: "Drew" And who would've thought... you, an IRS agent", Joe Black: "Death and Taxes."

References

  1. ^ Bullock, Christopher. "The Cobler of Preston". Retrieved 14 January 2013.