#allowance

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. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#family #know #make #member #members

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

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

— Samuel Richardson

#great #laboring #made #ought #persons

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

— Samuel Richardson

#made #make #parents #sometimes #themselves

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

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time. ↗

— Rick Baker

#buy #free #free time #how #i

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

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. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#across #allowance #because #got #grew

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

#bad #bad times #caught #confidence #fire

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

#amongst #benefit #estate #estates #gave