Pocket Money Quotes

“Time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you”
― Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club

“With pocket money we prepare schoolchildren for the part of their lives during which some people to whom they are not related will use money to make them do, every weekday for about eight hours, things they do not really want to do.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“So Michele and Stefi's friends don't receive regular pocket monty, which is a very Anglo-Saxon, puritan thing, which its obsession with system and clarity, benefits and punishments, its perverse desire to have little children learn to manage given amounts of money over given periods of time.”
― Tim Parks, An Italian Education