Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Brackenwas an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel...
old-lady
... you're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about ...
vacation forever littles
When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.
years eggs ham
Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.
truth color people
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.
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.
tombstone long people
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.
sound recipes devotion
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.
responsibility ideas waiting
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.
sunshine people upset
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.
funny-things people able
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.
humor people arson
People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.
worry fats being-fat
There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.
food competition television
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.