Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Brackenwas an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel...
mother thinking enough
Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.
thinking long should
Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.
thinking people paradise
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.
thinking way trouble
it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.
wall thinking mirrors
I recently adopted for my own a good motto I saw somewhere, on a barroom mirror or possibly a washroom wall: 'The time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted.' I think I'll have that printed some day on a T-shirt or the bedroom ceiling.
alive cocktail entire evening fact glad good party people proving spend
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.
experts realizing
It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.
wise travel return
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.
years self quitting
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.
restaurants copies cooks
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
attitude believe knees
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.
party people alive
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.
names giving age
forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.
people leisure use
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.