Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue
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Famous Peg Bracken Quotes
Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: On Getting Old for the First Time
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
“a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.”
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.”
“Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
“Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.”
Source: I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book
Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue
“Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.”
Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue
“I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.”
Source: On Getting Old for the First Time
Source: On Getting Old for the First Time
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
“One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.”
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: I Didn't Come Here to Argue
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.”
Source: A Window Over the Sink
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.”
Source: On Getting Old for the First Time
“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”
“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.”
Source: The I hate to cook book
“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
Source: But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler
“The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.”
Source: I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book