Quotes about Allowance

My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined. Votes: 4

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. Votes: 4

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. Votes: 4

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money. Votes: 4

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 a double allowance. Votes: 4

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 liberal allowance of time. Votes: 4

Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy. Votes: 4

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 therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby. Votes: 4

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 floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time. Votes: 4

What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance. Votes: 4

I don't even get an allowance. Votes: 3

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. Votes: 3

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. Votes: 3

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. Votes: 3

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. Votes: 3

I don't really have an allowance. When I want to get something I just have to ask my mom. Votes: 3

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future. Votes: 3

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 them. Votes: 3

Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance. Allowance; resistance. Votes: 3

Each new day provides a new opportunity to allow everyone and everything to be exactly as they are. Allowance (non-judgmental, non-resistance to what is) leads the way to contentment ... Votes: 3

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 havoc with the other faculties. Votes: 3

She reached into her coat pocket and felt two things she hadn't expected.... One was a wad of cash... she brought out the money. Leo whistled. "Allowance? Piper, your mom rocks! Votes: 3

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 of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. Votes: 3

I've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far. Votes: 3

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. They make allowances for the one in trouble. Votes: 3

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;! Votes: 3

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 settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. Votes: 3

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 that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers. Votes: 3

Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month. Votes: 1

I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things. Votes: 1

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance. Votes: 1

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 by working in daddy's garden. Votes: 1

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare. Votes: 1

I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart the value of money to your children. Votes: 1

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 to waitress across the street from where I grew up. Votes: 1

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 leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships! Votes: 1

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 I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to. Votes: 1

Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale. Votes: 1

On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to $70, and considering I was funding this out of my allowance, that $30 made all the difference. Votes: 1

In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance. Votes: 1

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners. Votes: 1

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed. Votes: 1

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats. Votes: 1

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 an allowance - since they were little. They learned that if they worked around the house, they got paid. If they didn't work, they didn't get paid. Votes: 1

We make allowance for necessity. Votes: 0

One life is an absurdly small allowance. Votes: 0

You have to learn how to take an allowance. Votes: 0

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth. Votes: 0

Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it. Votes: 0

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance. Votes: 0

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks. Votes: 0

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance. Votes: 0

Knowledge for us means knowledge of the allowance/dispensation (rukhsa). As for strictness, anyone can show strictness. Votes: 0

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for. Votes: 0

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance. Votes: 0

By giving kids an allowance, you teach that child to work for money rather than learn to create money. Votes: 0

Its amazing waht you can get used to if your daily allowance of bizarre is high enough.'......Harry Dresden Votes: 0

Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more. Votes: 0

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament. Votes: 0

There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections. Votes: 0

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue. Votes: 0

My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance. Votes: 0

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 back end. Votes: 0

Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. Votes: 0

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create. Votes: 0

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another. Votes: 0

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose, . . . when I want any good head-work done I choose a man--provided his education has been suitable--with a long nose. Votes: 0

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves. Votes: 0

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people. Votes: 0

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well. Votes: 0

As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great. Votes: 0

Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance. Votes: 0

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 more liberal allowance for the incompatible. Votes: 0

So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future. Votes: 0

Making every allowance for the errors of the most extreme fallibility, the history of Catholicism would on this hypothesis represent an amount of imposture probably unequaled in the annals of the human race. Votes: 0

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us. Votes: 0

Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake. Votes: 0