80 Quotes by Peg Bracken

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don’t take as long.

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

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don’t feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

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.

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet – so comforting that I’ve never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

It’s easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

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.