Jean Kerr Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”