Famous quotes containing the words family and/or allowances:
“One banquet in a rich family could feed a poor man’s family for half a year.”
—Chinese proverb.
“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 (1672–1719)