Noun
A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.
That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income.
That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. H. L. Mencken
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke
Good management is better than good income. Portuguese Proverb
Hope and expectation are a fool's income. Danish Proverb
Expense is bigger than income. Indonesian Proverb