Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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.
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.
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.
You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.