In-laws Quotes · Page 5

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

— Anonymous

I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.

— Milton Berle

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

— Ronan Farrow

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

— Phyllis Diller

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

— Allen Toussaint

Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Dorothy Kilgallen

It's not that we didn't get along, it's just that my mother-in-law is very objective. She objected to everything I did.

— Beverly D'Angelo

I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws…

— Sushmita Banerjee

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to…

— Elbert Hubbard

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…

— 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

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

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

— Brad Thor

I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just…

— Ashley Scott

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

In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put…

— Alan Dershowitz

Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing…

— Nicholas Sparks

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience,…

— Alan Lightman

Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like…

— Jeffrey Rosen

My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai…

— Nita Ambani

One of the reasons that people are so fascinated by Jared Kushner is that he has had no role at all in…

— Sarah Ellison

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into…

— Johnny Weir

At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they…

— Cecile Richards

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

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

— Henny Youngman

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

— Lou Gehrig

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

— Raymond Kelly

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

— Anonymous

In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can…

— Abraham Lincoln

Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks.

— Chanda Kochhar

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

— Robert Sylvester

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

— Edward Coke

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

— Scott Cook

My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children.

— Columba Bush

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

— Charles Edward Merriam

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

— Caroline Pafford Miller

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

— Phyllis Diller

People shouldn't be afraid to bring up issues of bias in law enforcement.

— Tim Kaine