In-laws Quotes · Page 3

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.

— Benjamin Walker

I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image.

— Bernard Manning

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

— Les Dawson

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

— William Shakespeare

You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

— Albert Einstein

I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.

— Milton Berle

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

— Tori Amos

When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out.

— Kate Clinton

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…

— Harriet Lerner

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown…

— Charlotte Ross

We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night…

— Brad Thor

I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault -…

— Les Dawson

The mother-in-law came round last week. It was absolutely pouring down. So I opened the door and I saw her there and…

— Les Dawson

The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

— James G. Frazer

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be…

— J. M. Coetzee

I'd heard so many stupidities about my country since I left Iran. People had watched this stupid movie Not Without My Daughter…

— Marjane Satrapi

I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and…

— Jim Butcher

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I…

— Ben Fountain

"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put…

— John Updike

The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea.…

— Orestes Brownson

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.…

— Andrew Solomon

There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were…

— Manning Marable

I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated…

— Barack Obama

I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would…

— Manning Marable

My sister-in-law found a real surprise in her stockings - my brother.

— Milton Berle

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

— Caroline Pafford Miller

Behind every successful enterprise, there is a supporting wife and surprised in-laws.

— Scott Cook

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

— Charles Edward Merriam

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

— Sonia Gandhi

I'd love to slit my mother-in-law's corsets and watch her spread to death.

— Phyllis Diller

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

— Dorothy Kilgallen

The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.

— Allen Toussaint

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

— Phyllis Diller

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.

— Anonymous

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

— Henny Youngman

Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream.

— Pauly Shore

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

— Ken Dodd

I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

— Raymond Kelly

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

— Lou Gehrig