Jean Kerr

Who was Jean Kerr?

Jean Kerr was an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary.

Famous Quotes:

• 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.
• If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
• 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.
• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?
• Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
• Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
• 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.
• The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
• Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
• 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.