Allowances Quotes

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I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric… — Terry Brooks
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply… — Peter R. Orszag
What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us. — Mignon McLaughlin
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own. — Publilius Syrus
When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that.… — Ross Macdonald
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware… — James Payn
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
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
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
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 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
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed. — Jethro Tull

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