Jean Kerr Quotes

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

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• 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.

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

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• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.

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• 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.

   

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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.

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

   

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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.

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• When the grandmothers of today hear the word “Chippendales,” they don’t necessary think of chairs.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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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.

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

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• Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.

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• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

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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?

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• A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself – like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.

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Jean Kerr (21)

Birth:	10th July, 1922
Death:	5th January, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Playwright

About

Jean Kerr was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an American author and playwright, best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts (Won- Tony Award) and Mary, Mary. She earned a BA degree from Marywood College. She earned an MA degree from Catholic University of America. She married professor Walter Kerr and they had six children. With her husband, she wrote Goldilocks, a short-lived Broadway musical comedy about the early days of silent film. She wrote other books include: The snake has all the lines and How I got to be perfect. She wrote other plays include: The Song of Bernadette, Jenny Kissed Me, Goldilocks, Poor Richard, Finishing Touches, and Lunch Hour.

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