Jean Kerr Quotes

Jean Kerr (21)

Birth:	10th July, 1922
Death:	5th January, 2003
Nationality:	American, Irish
Profession:	Author, Playwriter

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• I make mistakes; I’ll be the second to admit it.

  Jean Kerr

  Topics in Mistake, Uncategorized

  Tags in Admit

• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.

  Jean Kerr

  Topics in Uncategorized

• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

   

  Jean Kerr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Airplane

• Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

  Jean Kerr

  Topics in Wedding

  Tags in Divorced, Marriage

• The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible

   

  Jean Kerr

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Healthy, Morning, Feeling, Terrible

• I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

  Jean Kerr

• You don’t seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

  Jean Kerr

• Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.

  Jean Kerr

• When the grandmothers of today hear the word “Chippendales,” they don’t necessary think of chairs.

  Jean Kerr

• The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

  Jean Kerr

• Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

  Jean Kerr

• One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

  Jean Kerr

• Now the thing about having a baby – and I can’t be the first person to have noticed this – is that thereafter you have it.

  Jean Kerr

• Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr

• Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

  Jean Kerr

• I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

  Jean Kerr

• Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.

  Jean Kerr

• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

  Jean Kerr

• Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

  Jean Kerr

• A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself – like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.

  Jean Kerr