80 Quotes by Peg Bracken

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.

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.

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

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

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

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.