Jean Kerr (1922-2003)

Quotes

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

• I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

• I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.