Famous Jean Kerr Quotations

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"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."
by Jean Kerr
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
by Jean Kerr
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
by Jean Kerr
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
by Jean Kerr
"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left."
by Jean Kerr
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."
by Jean Kerr
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
by Jean Kerr
"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on."
by Jean Kerr
"I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on."
by 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?"
by Jean Kerr
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas"
by Jean Kerr
"Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye."
by Jean Kerr
"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite."
by 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."
by 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."
by Jean Kerr
"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."
by 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."
by 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 do..."
by Jean Kerr


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