Quotes by 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? ”

“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.”

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

“The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?”

“I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.”

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

“If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.”

“The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.”

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.”

“Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal educatio...”

“Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.”

“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.”

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