The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the… — Jean Kerr Copy Share
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertiliser, the writer and his wife sit on the fence - with a wonderful sense of "togetherness" - and listen to the magic symphony of the crickets. I can understand that. Around our house, we're pretty busy, and of course we're not the least bit integrated, but nevertheless my husband… — Jean Kerr Copy Share
Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of… — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
