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Jean Kerr

10 quotes

What we know about Jean Kerr comes primarily from their words — and those words are worth your time. The range of their thinking — from Marriage to Hope — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 14 quotes from Jean Kerr, each offering a different angle on Marriage, Hope, Women, Success, and Movingon. Start here and see if you agree: "The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."

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

— Jean Kerr

Hope

All Quotes by 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

Home

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”

— Jean Kerr

Health

“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

Best

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

— Jean Kerr

Hope

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

— Jean Kerr

Failure

“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

Good

“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

Marriage

“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

Beauty

“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

Women

“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

Hope