But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention.

“Al was referring to the time during the Cuban missile crisis that he left his five-months-pregnant wife home alone with no food or access…

— Jon Ronson

“Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.”

— Cormac McCarthy

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

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

— Les Dawson

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

— Les Dawson

“Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an…

— Suzanne Finnamore

“One who stops being a mother-in-law, she has become free from all the attachment. She will never again become a mother-in-law! It is not…

— Dada Bhagwan

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

— Joan Rivers

“The golden rule says do unto others as you would have done unto you. The mother-in-law rule says do unto others as they would…

— Susan Abel Lieberman

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

— Jaime Lerner

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Phyllis Diller