Top 86 Quotes About A Mother In Law
#1. The phlegamtic female is a weepy, bug-eyed, fat, lumpy, fleshy German. She looks like a sack of flour. She is born in order to become a mother-in-law. That is her whole ambition.
Anton Chekhov
#3. A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.
Jaime Lerner
#4. Diplomatic exchange combined the worst aspects of explaining things to a toddler and talking with a mother-in-law. It was dull, it was tedious, it was exasperating, and it was necessary.
Tom Clancy
#5. Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H.L. Mencken
#6. Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.
Henny Youngman
#7. A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
#8. A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.
Francois Rabelais
#9. There is no such thing as relationships in this world. It is really a self-created net. Do these cows-buffalos have any relationships? They don't have a mother-in-law, no father-in-law...
Dada Bhagwan
#10. If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#11. I feel emotionally conflicted. It's like when your mother in-law drives off a cliff in your new Porsche.
Leon M. Lederman
#12. My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.
Les Dawson
#13. They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
David Mamet
#14. Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.
Ian Botham
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#18. Morning a week with her ex-mother-in-law. So she couldn't fault Rafe for keeping his regular stool at the diner she worked at, even if it
Zoe York
#19. Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!"
Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?"
-Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in the Brando family with this exchange between Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother, and her mother in-law.
Peter Manso
#20. When a man marries, he should take a good look at his mother-in-law first, to understand where life will take him.
Ashok Ferrey
#21. 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
#22. On the drive up here, I saw a goose," he says. "A Canada goose. Fred told me they shit something horrible. They migrate between the north and the south, don't they? Like seniors.
Brian Francis
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
Benjamin Walker
#27. The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'
Lionel Richie
#28. I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#29. She sees me once in a guy's arms and she has us married already. I wonder what Raffe would think of my mom being his mother-in-law.
Susan Ee
#30. My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Diller
#31. We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.
Mack Sennett
#32. I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.
Ryan Lilly
#33. My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
Wilbur Smith
#34. A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law."
Raphael's look was priceless. "My mother is an insane archangel.
Nalini Singh
#35. The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.
Les Dawson
#36. Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Henny Youngman
#37. A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)
Agatha Christie
#38. I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.
Milton Berle
#39. Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#40. My mother-in-law buys her coats in a carper shop. She wears a 9x12.
Phyllis Diller
#41. Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.
Edith Sitwell
#42. My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.
Gary Delaney
#43. He hears his mother and his sister-in-law talk about how lonely it is to be married to a musician, how many nights they spend alone. He wonders if I would be unhappy. I don't say anything. I like to spend my nights alone.
Eula Biss
#44. Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
Lou Holtz
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
Les Dawson
#49. Damn it, Honor, what do I do with an Ancient mother-in-law who thinks I'm a bug?" One that had infested the life of Caliane's beloved son.
Nalini Singh
#50. Upon the death of her mother-in-law, Elearnor Roosevelt said, It is truly a tragedy of life to have spent 35 years with someone and upon her death, not to give it a second thought.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#51. Ay, wait," Rojer said. "Don't I get a say in this? All a sudden I'm intended, and have to live with my new mother-in-law?" "What's wrong with my mum?" Kendall demanded. "Nothing," Rojer said. "Corespawned right," Kendall said.
Peter V. Brett
#52. My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.
Les Dawson
#53. No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the way. Not in a bad way. Like, she once got caught on a law show I did called 'Philly' trying to take a picture - she was caught on-camera in the background. She does things like this.
Rick Hoffman
#54. If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#55. I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
George Gordon Byron
#56. At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God's law engraved in our hearts.
Pope Francis
#57. The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.
John Grisham
#58. I was thinking of murder, mutilation and dessert like Ignacia Sandoval's instructions for delectable empanadas made of minced mother-in-law's tongue (said to induce peace and harmony in your household), or the gonads of your cheating husband (a savory dish to add spice to your lovemaking).
Sandra Ramos O'Briant
#59. Your mother wouldn't describe a combination of Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, and Prince William as 'quite a catch.' There is nobody walking the earth good enough to be her son-in-law.
Neil Gaiman
#60. Karma can be an ill-timed mistress who always calls when your Mother-in-law is the first to answer the phone ... . and it would be a completely sad story had it not been so surreally hilarious.
Josh Stern
#61. You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.
Josh Kopelman
#62. (Giving your mother-in-law a gift is a good idea, but paying her for a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner is not recommended, even if both gestures would cost you the same amount of money.)
Dan Ariely
#63. When the baby sees Ismay, she bawls. "She must miss her mother," Ismay says. "Maybe I remind her of her mother?" A.J. nods, though he thinks the real cause is that his sister-in-law frightens the baby.
Gabrielle Zevin
#64. Radheya has always been a rebel against caste and the social hierarchy,' her mother-in-law said, after a brief pause. 'He has constantly been cruelly reminded that as a sutaputra, he cannot aspire to more than he deserves, but he believes in his own worth.
Kavita Kane
#65. I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.
Milton Berle
#66. It's funny. I thought she'd live through anything."
Charlie said, "Me too. I figured even if there was a nuclear war, it would still leave radioactive cockroaches and your mum.
Neil Gaiman
#67. I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.
Henny Youngman
#68. My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.
Blake Bailey
#69. I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.
Melanie Lynskey
#70. Nora had worked as a telegraphist at the Taunton Post Office and learned Morse code from her mother-in-law, accumulating valuable experience on the two common telegraphic instruments: the single needle and the
Neil McAleer
#71. Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.
Jean-Louis Gassee
#72. I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said.
Jim Butcher
#73. The most dangerous flower is one that grows on a grave. Everybody in its vicinity is dead. That's why I hand-picked it for my mother-in-law.
Jarod Kintz
#74. Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.
Keith O'Brien
#75. The ghastly mother-in-law is well represented by a little comedy film of 1952: No Room for the Groom, directed by Douglas Sirk, the fine German director more famous for his melodramas that humanely criticize American morals and values.
Jeanine Basinger
#76. On the whole, a woman isn't keen on her mother-in-law if she's controlling, disapproving, or interfering. Mine is a triple major in the "ings" and took extra night classes in calculating just for kicks. The woman is a hate nerd.
Stephanie Klein
#77. A bride who is bullied by her mother-in-law will herself become a bad mother-in-law.
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
#78. What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'
Pope Pius XI
#79. Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Voltaire
#80. I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
Tori Amos
#81. RBG often repeated her mother's advice that getting angry was a waste of your own time. Even more often, she shared her mother-in-law's counsel for marriage: that sometimes it helped to be a little deaf.
Irin Carmon
#82. The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.
Les Dawson
#83. Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.
Harriet Lerner
#84. I've booked a few sessions to make it look like a genuine getaway but now I look at my programme, I wonder how to fit in murdering my mother-in-law." Cressida Barker-Powell (Criss Cross)
Caron Allan
#85. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.
Lou Gehrig
#86. You can put a girlfriend on a motorcycle, yes, but what about your children and your bridesmaids, and your mother-in-law?
Anne Fortier
