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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.
I don't even get an allowance.
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.
I have an allowance for clothes and stuff.
I am in favour of a fully transferable allowance.
Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.
My mom gives me an allowance. She keeps me pretty tight-reined.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.
Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.
I came to New York with $500. That was a lot of money because my allowance was 50 cents.
I don't really have an allowance. When I want to get something I just have to ask my mom.
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.
Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.
It is a severe rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many allowances, and we make so few to our neighbour.
I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money.
Though small was your allowance, You saved a little store: And those who save a little, Shall get a plenty more.
The first bet I remember was on the Chargers in Super Bowl 29 with my classmates. I lost a lot of weeks' allowance.
The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.
When you're only source of income is a $20 allowance and you rely on a Razor scooter to get around, life's not that serious.
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.
Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.
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.
All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.
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.
I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.
I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.
I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.
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.
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.
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've become a real housewife. Terry doesn't mind me working, in fact he loves me to be independent. But I only get an allowance of $15 dollars a week, which doesn't go very far.
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.
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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.
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.
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.
Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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!
