death and taxes



death and taxes

Symbols of inevitability. Benjamin Franklin observed that “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” English novelist Daniel Defoe said much the same thing a century earlier.
See also: and, death, taxes

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Franciscafrahn-THEES-kah (Spanish), frahn-SEES-kah (Latin American Spanish), frən-SEESH-kə (Portuguese)Spanish, Portuguese, Late Roman
DÉLia-Portuguese, French, Hungarian
Bao-Chinese
Bakehouse['beikhaus]
Tobith-Biblical Greek
Serafino-Italian