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.
– Jean Kerr
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
– Jean Kerr
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
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
– Jean Kerr
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
– Jean Kerr
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
– Jean Kerr
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
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.
– 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
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
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.
– Jean Kerr
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.
– Jean Kerr
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.
– Jean Kerr
When the grandmothers of today hear the word Chippendales, they don't necessary think of chairs.
– Jean Kerr
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
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
– Jean Kerr
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.
– Jean Kerr
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
– Jean Kerr
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.
– Jean Kerr
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
– Jean Kerr
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.