Peg Bracken Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• 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.

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  Piano, Church, Firsts

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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

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  Names, Giving, Age

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• ... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.

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  Way, Easy, Found

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• People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.

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  Humor, People, Arson

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.

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  Travel, Sex, Life Is

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• You may have noticed, as I have, that if ever you find yourself declaring emphatically and unequivocally that you will never do some one particular thing, chances are good that this is precisely what you will one day find yourself doing.

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  Finding Yourself, One Day, May

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• 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.

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  Children, Sight, Parent

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

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  Truth, Color, People

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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

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  Experts, Realizing

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• a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.

  Peg Bracken

  Doe, Made

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

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  Vacation, Forever, Littles

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind...The I HATE TO COOK people consist mainly of those who find other things more interesting and less fattening, and so they do it as seldom as possible. Today there is an Annual Culinary Olympics, with hundreds of cooks from many countries ardently competing. But we who hate to cook have had our own Olympics for years, seeing who can get out of the kitchen the fastest and stay out the longest.

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  Country, Hate, Book

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• Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.

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  Travel, Wonder, Belts

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English.

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  Country, Travel, Speak English

  Peg Bracken (1973). “But I Wouldn't Have Missed it for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Paradise

  1960 The I Hate to Cook Book, ch.9.

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• Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

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  Eye, Iron, Pudding

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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

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  Mother, Thinking, Enough

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• 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.

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  Men, Illustration, Looks

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

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  Self, Years, Quitting

  Peg Bracken (1996). “On Getting Old for the First Time”, Bookpartners

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

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  Wise, Travel, Return

  Peg Bracken (1996). “On Getting Old for the First Time”, Bookpartners

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• The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.

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  Fire, Rocks, Eggs

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• 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.

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  Party, People, Alive

  Peg Bracken (1964). “I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book”

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• Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.

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  Years, Eggs, Vines

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• 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.

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  Attitude, Believe, Knees

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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