Allowance Quotes

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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and… — Beverly Cleary
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed. — Jethro Tull
There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the… — Philippa Gregory
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and… — Charles Spurgeon
Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it. — Paul Dickson
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. — William Shakespeare
One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going… — Freya Stark
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used… — Lady Gaga
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance… — Nikki Giovanni
I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year… — Lauren Conrad
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the… — Sloane Crosley
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It… — Ann Landers
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the… — Callan McAuliffe
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on… — William Osler
My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They've been on a commission - not… — Dave Ramsey
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. — David Storey
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a… — Henry David Thoreau
She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance. — Anne Stuart
I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And… — P.G. Wodehouse

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