When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever. — Peg Bracken Forever Copy Share Image
One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is. — Peg Bracken Basically Copy Share Image
There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time. — Peg Bracken Being fat Copy Share Image
The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be. — Peg Bracken Men Copy Share Image
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. — Peg Bracken Christmas Copy Share Image
It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be. — Peg Bracken Expert Copy Share Image
Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do. — Peg Bracken Facts Copy Share Image
You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about. — Peg Bracken Cuss Copy Share Image
This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration… — Peg Bracken Appeals Copy Share Image
Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed. — Peg Bracken Belts Copy Share Image
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English. — Peg Bracken Country Copy Share Image
... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there… — Peg Bracken Easy Copy Share Image
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed. — Peg Bracken Friendship Copy Share Image
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us. — Peg Bracken Inspirational Copy Share Image
Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long. — Peg Bracken Long Copy Share Image
You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do… — Peg Bracken Chance Copy Share Image
One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the… — Peg Bracken Adulthood Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you… — Peg Bracken Aging Copy Share Image
When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I… — Peg Bracken Bases Copy Share Image
Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a… — Peg Bracken Competition Copy Share Image
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're… — Peg Bracken Alive Copy Share Image
travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake… — Peg Bracken Advantage Copy Share Image
many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or… — Peg Bracken Available Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of… — Peg Bracken Annuals Copy Share Image
Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of… — Peg Bracken Advantage Copy Share Image
How to Comfort Yourself When You Have Acted Like a Jackass Everyone does this occasionally, and you shouldn't feel too upset about… — Peg Bracken Bad example Copy Share Image
It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one. — Peg Bracken Companion Copy Share Image
Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough. — Peg Bracken Enough Copy Share Image
People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor. — Peg Bracken Arson Copy Share Image
forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age. — Peg Bracken Age Copy Share Image
a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity. — Peg Bracken Celebrity Copy Share Image
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it. — Peg Bracken Identity Copy Share Image
You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet. — Peg Bracken Bigs Copy Share Image
I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at… — Peg Bracken Attitude Copy Share Image
As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still… — Peg Bracken Blanket Copy Share Image
the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself. — Peg Bracken Illusion Copy Share Image
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice… — Peg Bracken Cheese Copy Share Image
This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix. — Peg Bracken Child Copy Share Image
