Quotes from Peg Bracken

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

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.

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine shop.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

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.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about it unless it happens quite often, such as three times a day, in which case you must simply get used to it. Remember, other people like you as well or better for it, because it makes them feel so superior; so you've spread a little sunshine. And at the very least, you've served as a bad example.

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

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.