97 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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