Peg Bracken Quotes and Sayings - Page 2

“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

#Taken #Photograph #Natural

“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 things ... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Tombstone #Long #People

“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 hadn't known about—more proof that a mutual dislike can be quite as sound a basis for friendship as a mutual devotion.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Sound #Recipes #Devotion

“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.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Men #Illustration #Machines

“It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Easier #Companion

“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 they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Children #Sight #Parent

“The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Sex #Men #Should

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

#Worry #Fats

“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.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Responsibility #Ideas #Waiting

“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.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Sunshine #People #Upset

“Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Vegetables #Facts #Taste

“Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Eye #Iron #Pudding

“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.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Thinking #People #Paradise

“This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Children #Growth #Lines

“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.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Food #Competition #Television

“Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Simple #Facts #Life Is

“It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Experts #Realizing

“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.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Learning #Experience #Way

“There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Food #Comforting #Forgotten

“a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Doe #Made

“travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Coffee #Home #Drunk

“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.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Years #Important #Aging

“One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Piano #Church #Firsts

“When people say it's a funny thing about them, you will probably be able to control your hysterics. They are only getting ready to announce the shattering fact that they don't like something. And it's not going to be something that's really quite awful, like suttee or apartheid; it's going to be something small.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Funny Things #People #Able

“When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.”
-- Peg Bracken

#Want