Jean Kerr
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.
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 feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.
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.