while your mother in law still lives, domestic harmony /…

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

— Juvenal

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

— Phyllis Diller

Even though I have a zero relationship with my mother in law, she still insists I call her mom.

— Anonymous

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.

— Laura Schlessinger

I am very close to my mother-in-law, Lee, we see each other often.

— Carole Radziwill

A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

“You see what your mother-in-law hasn’t yet realised is that she’s the one who needs to hold out the olive branch, not you, because…

— Karl Wiggins

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

— Henny Youngman

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

— Ken Dodd

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…

— Wilbur Smith

I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.

— Les Dawson

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

— Joan Rivers

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

— Jaime Lerner

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

— Les Dawson