Peg Bracken Quotations

It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.

Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.