Explore Quotes 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning