Top 21 Quotes by Jean Kerr

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.