Top 126 Allowance Quotes & Sayings

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

I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

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

We want to give unemployment allowance and it is just a question of time and fund availability.

These modern means of communication are one reason why I recently opposed the Government's decision to grant MPs a new communications allowance. With new technology giving us the opportunity to communicate directly with voters very cheaply, why did Labour MPs vote for a £10,000 allowance to tell voters what a good job they do?

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.

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

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.

I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of snyed, cynical allowance of untruth to be in a newspaper because it might be titillating.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Never allow a child to spend all of his allowance. Insist that he set aside a certain amount of money every week and put it in a safe place, where you can get it if you need to buy beer.

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

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.

As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

I have an allowance for clothes and stuff.

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

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.

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;!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.

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.

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.

We make allowance for necessity.

I don't even get an allowance.

You have to learn how to take an allowance.

When you're only source of income is a $20 allowance and you rely on a Razor scooter to get around, life's not that serious.

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

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.

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

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.

Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.

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.

The first bet I remember was on the Chargers in Super Bowl 29 with my classmates. I lost a lot of weeks' allowance.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.