Top 100 In Law Quotes
#1. One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.
Helen A. Rosburg
#2. I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
Steven Soderbergh
#3. We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. What is the usual percentage?" Pandora asked. "Whatever it is, I'll give you half."
Raising one brow, Rhys asked, "Why only half?"
"Don't I deserve an in-law discount?" Pandora asked ingenuously.
Rhys laughed, looking so boyish that Helen felt her heart quicken. "Aye, you do.
Lisa Kleypas
#5. Daughters-in-law who expect to live modern, post-liberalized lives are finding themselves stuck with pre-liberalized Mummyjis.
Veena Venugopal
#6. I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
Les Dawson
#7. In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.
Jeremy Sisto
#8. I don't think I'd like Manhattan anymore. My mother-in-law lives there, and you go there. But I like looking at it from a distance. It's a fantastic sight - every time, it awes me.
Martin Amis
#9. My boyfriends love my dad. He's like the perfect in-law to have. In fact, if my boyfriend and I are in a fight, my dad will choose his side. Always! He loves me, but it is tough love with me.
Jill Wagner
#10. I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
Les Dawson
#11. Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.
Ed Rendell
#12. I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.
Pete Rose
#13. If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.
R.K. Narayan
#14. Tapping the screen, he waited for his brother-in-law to answer. "Hey, Sleeping Beauty." "Where's my drugs?" Rick laughed. "Now you sound like my patients.
Charlie Cochet
#15. Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
Ambrose Bierce
#16. My greatest rewards from women have been kisses on the cheek, a whispered thank-you for helping them manage their mothers-in-law, and even an invitation to tea.
Phoebe Damrosch
#17. Was anybody shooting at you?"
-George "Judge" Knott (responding to his son-in-law after hearing complaints about the army in 1963.)
"No."
-Son-in-law
"Well then, sounds like you had a pretty good day."
-George "Judge" Knott
Jennifer Rude Klett
#18. And you, you worthless - ' he broke out as I entered, turning to his daughter-in-law, and employing an epithet as harmless as duck, or sheep, but generally represented by a dash - .
Emily Bronte
#19. Daughter-in-law is just a word. Call her anything you like. The hand of good fortune is not fussy about words.
Rohinton Mistry
#20. Earlier, I stepped on a squid that had propelled itself over the bulwarks! (Its eyes & beak reminded me of my father-in-law.)
David Mitchell
#21. while your mother in law still lives, domestic harmony / is out of the question.
Juvenal
#22. Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?
Rick Santorum
#23. But realistically, I could not kill my brother-in-law.
Lola Dodge
#24. Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.
Juvenal
#25. The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
Democritus
#26. In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not.
Abraham Lincoln
#27. Did you know that if you re-arrange the letters in 'mother-in-law' you can create the phrase 'woman Hitler'?
Holly from Secrets
Sara Daniell
#28. I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.
Lou Ferrigno
#29. The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.
David Pietrusza
#30. I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell. Theodore Roosevelt, writing in naval history in his spare time while in law school
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#31. Ethics and morals do, in reality, have a place in law - although not in jurisprudence. It is morals that help us make the laws, but morals do not help us apply them.
Hanya Yanagihara
#32. He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate
Sanjaya Baru
#33. I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.
Natalie Dormer
#34. When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.
Jasper Carrott
#35. I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.
Zakk Wylde
#36. They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.
Lisa Kleypas
#38. I got a little lost in "Law & Order" and "Luther" and all those shows where it's basically women dying all the time, I had to stop watching that stuff because it fills me with anxiety. And I joined a gym.
Kevin Drew
#39. In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
Randall Kennedy
#40. My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
Les Dawson
#41. My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.
Phyllis Diller
#42. In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
Anthony Trollope
#43. I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.
Leon M. Lederman
#44. In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
Harry S. Truman
#45. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
William Shakespeare
#46. My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.
Columba Bush
#47. We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.
John Grisham
#48. Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.
Kenneth Eade
#49. They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
David Mamet
#50. Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.
Mark Twain
#51. The captain's sister-in-law had traded her mechanic's coveralls for a colorful shirt, shorts, and a huge straw hat. She looked like a tourist, and because I'm the helpful sort, I told her so.
Rachel Bach
#52. Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.
Ian Botham
#53. I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
Les Dawson
#54. When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.
Emily Yoffe
#55. My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!
Dorothy Kilgallen
#56. My mother-in-law said, 'One day I will dance on your grave.' I said 'I hope you do; I will be buried at sea.'
Les Dawson
#57. The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
Benjamin Walker
#58. Introduction, the opportunity to write the book came while I was in law school, the result of my election as the first African-American president of the Harvard
Barack Obama
#59. My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
Patricia Heaton
#60. They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
Preston Brooks
#61. Don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.
Lisa Scottoline
#62. My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.
Michelle Rhee
#63. Anyway, I heard you and your Mother-in-Law kicked ass! Shame his daddy'o wasn't around for the family reunion, although I doubted a battle is the right way to say 'hi,my name's Kiera and I am sexing up your son's man stick.
Stephanie Hudson
#64. It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law.
Don DeLillo
#65. I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
Frank Shorter
#66. Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know ... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador ... perhaps God doesn't permit that much.
Rose Kennedy
#67. A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.
Jimmy Carter
#68. Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old father; if one dies because one dreams of one's father, what happens to a man who dreams of his mother-in-law?
H. Rider Haggard
#69. This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.
Charlotte Ross
#70. And in that same way, law school breaks a mind down. Novelists, poets, and artists don't often do well in law school, but neither, necessarily, do mathematicians, logicians and scientists. The first group fails because their logic is their own; the second fails because logic is all they own.
Hanya Yanagihara
#71. While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.
Peter Kropotkin
#72. Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.
Brian Acton
#73. ...and this is what grandmothers and mother-in-law and mothers do. They fight for the good.
Fredrik Backman
#74. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.
Pope Benedict XVI
#75. Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt , speaking]
Mark Batterson
#76. My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.
David Gregory
#77. Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.
(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),
Idries Shah
#78. I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient as an artist. I am in law school and that has helped me in so many ways. It's cool to know what I'm signing and I hope to be able to advise other artists.
Antoniette Costa
#79. God in nature is God above us, God in law is God against us, but God in Christ is God with us and for us. -James Bennett
E.J. Evans
#80. What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?
Nancy Reagan
#81. It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.
Pippa Middleton
#82. I was always interested in law at school; it was a great outlet to argue but not make anyone angry!
Sasha Jackson
#83. I've been able to look at the world differently from three continents practically. I've always lived between India and the U.S. When I married Mahmood I became a daughter-in-law of Africa. That really changed my worldview. I can see it from so many perspectives.
Mira Nair
#84. A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.
Karel Capek
#85. Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.
Don Baylor
#86. My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#87. What happens to the relationship you never had with your mother-in-law when your husband dies?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#88. The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J.M. Coetzee
#89. It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offense came not.
Jane Austen
#90. If it's not one thing, it's your mother-in-law.
Len Bailey
#91. When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.
Kate Clinton
#92. Barack Obama said he may negotiate with the Taliban. A lot of people are saying okay, but be careful. But I said this guy has experience negotiating with the enemy. For gosh sake, he lives with his mother-in-law, you know.
David Letterman
#93. That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
Daniel Clowes
#94. My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
Henny Youngman
#96. My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#97. My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.
Ann McLane Kuster
#98. My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
Gary Lineker
#99. The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
Jonathan Zittrain
#100. Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
Goldwin Smith
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