Peg Bracken Quotes
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.
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.
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.
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.
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.
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.
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
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.
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.
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.
You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.
Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.
Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.
Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.
... 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.
... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.
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.
Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.
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.
There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.
