Allowance Quotes

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  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.

  Ann Landers

  Love, Friendship, Forgiveness

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• 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

  Children, Kids, Winning

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• The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

  David Storey

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

  "Home".

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• We make allowance for necessity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “M. Tullii Ciceronis”

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Littles, Stores, Saved

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.550

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• 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;!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Son, Men, Doubt

  "If - " st. 1 (1910)

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

  Al Bernstein

  Inspirational, Birthday, Teenage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Justin Bieber

  Mom, Want, Asks

  "Justin Bieber Can Still Get Grounded". www.zimbio.com. May 12, 2010.

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

  Samuel Richardson

  Parent, Youth, Sometimes

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• I don't even get an allowance.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Beer, Needs

  Dave Barry (2006). “Dave Barry's Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball on the Dollar?”, p.88, Crown Archetype

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

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Children, Kids, Giving

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Nature, Gentle Touch

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Luxury, Want, No Excuses

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 07, 2017

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• 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.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Eye, Judging, Judgement

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.124, Sophia Institute Press

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• 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

  Thinking, House, Economy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Samuel Richardson

  Ill Health, Made, Petulance

  "A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction".

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• 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

  Sympathy, War, May

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

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Giving, Chloe

  "Meet the stars of Scorsese's new blockbuster". Interview with Craig McLean, www.independent.co.uk. November 27, 2011.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Dwarves, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson (1791). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.1320

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• Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.

  John Berger

  Wall, Shopping, Shadow

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.896, Vintage

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Venture

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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

  Jim Butcher

  Enough, Harry Dresden, Bizarre

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• 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.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Should Have, Wife, Benefits

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.51, Broadview Press

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