Polcyn Financial Quotes & Sayings

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle.

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die, you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here. — Alfred Armand Montapert

The human authors and editors of the Old Testament brought their own experiences and presuppositions to the task of writing. We don't often think about this when we read the Bible. — Adam Hamilton

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. — Michel De Montaigne

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. — Sarah Vowell

But it was not only by this feeling, as Varvara thought, that he was guided. Mingling with his pride, with his need always to be first, was another motive, at which Varvara did not guess - a truly religious urge. His disillusionment in Mary (his betrothed), whom he had imagined such a saint, his feeling of outrage was so cruel that he sank into despair; and despair led him - whither? To God, to the faith of his childhood, which had never lost its hold upon him. — Leo Tolstoy

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted. — Avril Lavigne

What no one else sees, no one else cares about. — Elizabeth Knox

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times. — Charles De Lint

One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back, — A. L. Kennedy