Allowance Quotes

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.

I don't even get an allowance.

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

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

All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

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.

We make allowance for necessity.

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

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

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

It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.

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

I've worked really hard. I could go and by a really expensive watch, but I don't. I still have an allowance and I stick to it. I never go over it and I always put a bit of money away to save.

You have to learn how to take an allowance.

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

You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me." Incredulous, she said, "That's it? 'Don't argue with me' is your explanation as to why I shouldn't argue with you?

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.

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

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.