Quotes About Allowances

#1. She had not yet such a love of wisdom as to be able to bear with folly. The foolish and weak are the most easily disgusted with folly and weakness which is not of their own sort, and are the last to make allowances for them.

George MacDonald

#2. I don't need you to make allowances for anything." Damn her pride. "If you can stand to pay for it, then I can wear it."
His brow arched. "Don't let your mouth write checks your body can't cash, sweetheart. Because trust me, I know exactly how to dress a woman for prime impact.

Lora Leigh

#3. It's my experience that a weakness understood is no weakness. If you know you have it, even if you can't control it, you can make allowances for it. It is those who ignore or don't understand their weaknesses who are wasted by them.

Kristen Ashley

#4. The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.

Andy Sawford

#5. When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

Frank Herbert

#6. 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

#7. Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.

Pete Hamill

#8. 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

#9. As we know, Christian charity has always been able to make allowances for a lot of good honest hatred, ...

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Remember when we had trouble beating the last few levels of Zelda? We pooled our allowances and bought the walk-through guide to help us out.' He softly adds, 'You should've asked for help before cheating.

Adam Silvera

#11. I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.

James Arthur

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

William Penn

#13. 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

#14. In the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.

Shusha Guppy

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

Graeme Simsion

#16. What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

Mignon McLaughlin

#17. You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?"
"I was hungry, allowances should be made.

Gail Carriger

#18. Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.

Warren Beatty

#19. There are many sorts of love," she counsels me. "And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream.

Philippa Gregory

#20. The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

John Wesley

#21. 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

#22. Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

Anatole France

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

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#24. You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others - that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.

Eric Hoffer

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Samuel Richardson

#27. Taking a scenic route in Southeast Iowa is like talking about a good Barry Manilow album. You have to make certain allowances.

Bill Bryson

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

Samuel Richardson

#29. When you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.

Philippa Gregory

#30. For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

John Crowe Ransom

#31. In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn't have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.

Liz Goldwyn

#32. 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

#33. The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

Jethro Tull

#34. The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.

Milan Kundera

#35. But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good

Wilkie Collins

#36. Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.

Elizabeth Peters

#37. All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#38. I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

Zaha Hadid

#39. For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

Milan Kundera

#40. Lobbyists know that a 0 percent tax rate on capital income is not, in fact, the lowest possible rate. There can be negative tax rates. There can be subsidies. There can be allowances for depreciation. Lobbyists are adaptive creatures.

Joel Achenbach

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

William Proxmire

#42. I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

Bertrand Russell

#43. Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

Joseph Addison

#44. 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

#45. You make allowances for your family. They may not seem normal to the world but they're normal to you because you've been dealing with them all your life.

John Dufresne

#46. Can you believe it? Here's a 15-year-old girl pinching pennies to buy strainers and whetstones and tempura pots when all the girls in school are getting huge allowances and buying beautiful dresses and shoes. Don't you feel sorry for me?

Haruki Murakami

#47. 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