#allowance

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. ↗

— James Payn

#allowances #am #apt #aware #certain

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. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#art #faculties #havoc #keep #logic

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. ↗

— Barbara Coloroso

#allowance #earn #give #handling #how

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. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#always #difficulties #exists #full #help

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

#always #around #earn #had #house

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! ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#allowance #back #douglas #grammar #grammar school

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. ↗

— Al Bernstein

#cut #his #just #off #recapture

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

— David Storey

#another #essence #friendship #lapses #little

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. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

#allowance #always #around #broom #chores

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

— Samuel Richardson

#great #laboring #made #ought #persons