If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
—Jean Kerr
Topics: Diet, Weight
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
Topics: Divorce
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
—Jean Kerr
Topics: Just for Fun, Understanding, Adversity
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
Topics: Men, Marriage
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
Topics: Poverty, The Poor, Unhappiness
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
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
—Jean Kerr
Topics: Hypocrisy
I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?
—Jean Kerr
Topics: Beauty
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
—Jean Kerr
Topics: Health
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
—Jean Kerr
Topics: Hope
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