Jean Kerr quotes

Jean Kerr was an American author and playwright, renowned for her comedic works and essays. Her writings often explored suburban life and the humorous challenges of family and marriage. She became a bestselling author with books like "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" and earned acclaim for her plays on Broadway. Here are 26 of her quotes:

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)
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want-an adorable pancreas? View quote
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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. View quote
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. View quote
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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. View quote
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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation. View quote
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I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. View quote
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You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three. View quote
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I will read anything rather than work. View quote
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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. View quote
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If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. (Jean Kerr)
Children are different-mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts. View quote
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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people-with agents. View quote
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The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet. View quote
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Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? View quote
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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. View quote
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Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. View quote
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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. View quote
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Jean Kerr

Occupation: Irish-American Author
Born: July 10, 1922
Died: January 5, 2003
Quotes count: 26
Wikipedia: Jean Kerr

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