Allowance Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.

She had some money left over from her allowance that I made her give her father for gas, driving his car all around out there, which he did not take but she's not getting it back.

Obviously, we are never going to be satisfied with a losing quarter but quite frankly we remain upbeat. The loss itself was a result of a $270,000 increase in allowance for doubtful accounts receivable and an unrealized hedging loss -- marked -- to market at the end of the quarter. As of August 31, 2005 the majority of this unrealized loss has been reversed out. However, the coffee market continues to remain extremely volatile. Beyond these two one time events, the quarter was overall a positive considering prices declined by over 20% in roughly a 30 day period.

From the time I could read, I've been devouring these things. I had a $5 allowance growing up in Brooklyn and I spent the whole thing every week at the Nostrand Avenue Comics shop.

Given the perception that much of the capital likely to leave the country is already invested offshore, lifting the R750000 allowance for individuals would have little macro effect, but would go a long way in boosting confidence.

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.

He faced really tough competition in the Met Mile and I thought he ran well against them. I brought him back in the allowance race to regain his confidence and he seems to be moving forward.

We made the album and when they didn't want to put it out, they didn't give it back to us. I think, morally speaking, that's a definite flaw in the modus operandi of majors. That M.O. doesn't make any allowance for the emotional and moral side -- we wrote these songs, they belong to us.

He is only a little horse and that's why I like to space his races and claim an allowance when I can.

Our school doctor would not certify Vitaly at 119 until he received the two-pound weight allowance on Jan. 15. I told Vitaly he should move up to 125, but he wanted to stay at 119.

Participants receive accredited training, an allowance and uniforms and because they actually apply to be involved in the project, they are working on local environmental projects that they have a particular interest in.

Those who feed off the Aboriginal industry do not want to see things changed. Look at the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. Members receive $290 a day sitting allowance and $320 a day travelling allowance, and most of these people also hold other very well paid positions. No wonder they did not want to resign recently!

We are likely to upgrade our 2006 numbers slightly as a result, and do not believe that the shares look expensive relative to the peer group, once allowance is made for the cash on the balance sheet.

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.

My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.

This request seeks to remedy the shortcomings in last month's hearing. We understand the importance of the make allowance to the economic survival of our Class III and IV customers. Amending the make allowance for Class III and IV is justifiable because the federal order's pricing system does not allow these processors to recover their costs from the marketplace. We also know that an increase in the make allowance lowers dairy farmer incomes. So, on behalf of our farmers, we need to minimize that impact.

We understand that halftime shows, homecoming and other presentations are important to our institutions. So the allowance is there.

FDA allowance to export the cartridges made at our San Diego plant was the final regulatory hurdle we needed to overcome in order to start treating patients in our pivotal clinical trial in China. Personnel are now being trained and cartridges manufactured so we can begin patient treatment early in 2006.

There's no family allowance on the first child, you know.

I snow blow my driveway at 10 p.m. at night if it snows. I think there needs to be some allowance for snow.

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

It turns out that she's just not a horse that travels. I've only shipped her twice, once up to Bay Meadows for a little allowance race where she ran terrible and then to New York, where she didn't run at all. Of course, that was a tough spot but that wasn't the main problem. She just has to run where she's training.

I had some great pitchers while in St. Louis. At first, they only 'pitched' the ball fifty feet. They had an allowance of six bases on balls, which was neutralized to some extent by four strikes. Later on, the 'throw' became a free-for-all, overhand, or any style the pitcher chose.

If you know you're going to put $3,000 into an IRA, or money into a dependent care account or flexible spending account, add that up. Every time you reach that exemption amount, add another allowance on your W-4.

I really think the race before (an allowance victory) was when he the light bulb went on, where he actually showed a middle-move acceleration, like he was getting it all figured out. I said six weeks ago I didn't feel like I could get to a mile and an eighth fast enough. Our main goal is still the Arkansas Derby and beyond.

If the kids overspent, they would have to pay it back from their allowance after having a sit-down. Or if Mrs. Seaver did this, she and her husband would have a late-night sit-down in their pajamas about setting a bad example. ... Growing Pains

He's out of conditions; so he can't run in an allowance race. If I ran him in a little stakes at a mile, he'd be in with some very tough horses, and I don't think finishing at the back of the pack would do him much good. So we just train him up to the races.

We make allowance for necessity.

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

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 don't even get an allowance.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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