Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr
Jean Kerrwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 July 1923
CountryUnited States of America
adorable beauty deep nonsense tired
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
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Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
feeling hope
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
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One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
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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.
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
christmas morning doors
Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.
civilized
I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.
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You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
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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.
grandmother thinking grandparent
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.