Peg Bracken Quotes

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• Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?
• When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.
• 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…
• When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I…
• There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.
• The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.
• It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that…
• It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.
• 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…
• You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.
• Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other…
• What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.
• Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.
• Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

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