Jean Kerr Quotes
"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
(Related: Beauty, Being, Deep, Nonsense, Skin, Want)
"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
(Related: Women, Man)
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Feeling)
"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
(Related: Time, Sound)
"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
(Related: Mind)
"When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Today, Word)
"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
(Related: Talent, People)
"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
(Related: Money, Hope, Help, Poor)
"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
(Related: Baby, First, Now)
"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Being, Man)
"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
(Related: Losing)
"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
(Related: Love, Time, Home, Buying, Man, May)
"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
(Related: Coffee)
"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
(Related: Being, Right)
"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Man, Speech)
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: People, Living)
"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Hope, Feeling)
"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
(Related: People, Airplanes)
"I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Mistakes)
"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure."
- Jean Kerr
(Related: Success, Failure, Rules)