Jean Kerr quotes (11):

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

I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

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.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

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.

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

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

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

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 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.

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