Peg Bracken Quotes.
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
You don’t get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
You’re not supposed to cuss when you’re an old lady, and just when there’s so much more to cuss about.
Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that’s where my responsibility ends. But I just don’t wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don’t use the ideas that I find, they’re going to quit showing up.
Kitchens were different then, too – not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild – when the first trouble happens that Mama can’t fix.
I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: ‘The time you enjoyed wasting wasn’t wasted.’ I think I’ll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.
As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn’t resemble us.
… I’ve never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
But let me say this about learning experiences: they’re weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.
Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition … Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn’t make it anywhere else.
When people say it’s a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don’t like something. And it’s not going to be something that’s really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it’s going to be something small.
It’s easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.
forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.
Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.
People would have more leisure time if it weren’t for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.
it isn’t true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it’s going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.
It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don’t feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
