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 Copy Share Image
forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age. — Peg Bracken Age Copy Share Image
Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one. — Peg Bracken Companion Copy Share Image
But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience… — Peg Bracken Education Copy Share Image
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly… — Peg Bracken Thinking Copy Share Image
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for… — Peg Bracken Child Copy Share Image
Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal. — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even… — Peg Bracken Comfort Copy Share Image
When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting… — Peg Bracken Copy Share Image
The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise… — Peg Bracken Challenges 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 Copy Share Image
It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them.… — Peg Bracken Being a parent 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever. — Peg Bracken 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
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 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
