Allowance Quotes

• In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Health
  • Married
  • Health care

• 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
  • Plenty
  • Saved

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

  

  Jack Roy
  • Liked
  • Old Man
  • Allowance

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

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Like
  • Clothes
  • Allowance

• One life is an absurdly small allowance.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Small
  • Life is

• As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great.

  

  Francis Quarles
  • Adversity
  • Worldly
  • Allowance

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

  

  William Penn
  • Neighbour
  • Severe
  • Rebuke

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

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Virtue
  • Allowance
  • Public Esteem

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

  

  William Proxmire
  • Standards
  • Arbitrary
  • Tainted

• I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Magic
  • Able
  • Reader

• When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • School
  • Today
  • Company

• 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.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Emotion
  • Negative
  • Willingness

• I'm part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA.

  

  Rich Moore
  • Games
  • Generation
  • Part

• The government could either raise $100 by selling allowances and then give that amount in cash to particular businesses and individuals, or it could simply give $100 worth of allowances to those businesses and individuals, who could immediately and easily transform the allowances into cash through the secondary market.

  

  Peter Orszag
  • Business
  • Individual
  • Allowance