Allowance Quotes

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I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money. — Christie Hefner
For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays… — John Crowe Ransom
Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing… — John Berger
The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and… — Andy Sawford
You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for… — Eric Hoffer
After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes… — Lin Yutang
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way… — Mark Twain
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. — Samuel Richardson
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for… — Joseph Addison
For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance… — Margaret Cavendish
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things. — Nate Berkus
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that… — Virginia Woolf
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a… — George Eliot
Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made… — Anatole France
I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance. — Wendy Cope
A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione… — James Fenton
I don't even get an allowance. — Macaulay Culkin
I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my… — Rick Baker

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