"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 (play)/Mary, Mary.

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If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

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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.

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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.

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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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

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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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Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

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

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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.

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