In-laws Quotes - Page 11

• The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

  Michel de Montaigne

  Daughter, Men, Law

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Winning, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Third Class in Indian Railways”, p.48, Cosimo, Inc.

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• America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

  Dylan Moran

  Hard Work, Holiday, Thinking

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• There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.

  Dan Simmons

  Wall, Light, Law

  Dan Simmons (2014). “Song of Kali”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Sight, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.401

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• As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Powerful, Law, Judging

  "The Devil's Dictionary". Book by Ambrose Bierce, 1906.

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• My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Wrinkles, Law

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

  Tim Daly

  Sister In Law, Medicine, Practice

  "Private Practice Preview: Great Expectations Scare Tim Daly". Interview with Dana Meltzer Zepeda, www.tvguide.com. September 23, 2007.

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• Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Marriage, Daughter, Husband

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.12, Vintage

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• I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Brother, Strong, Father

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  Gail Collins

  Kings, Husband, School

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• Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?

  Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

  Brother, Husband, War

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• The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Rights, Race, Order

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• I believe that life is valuable, even when it is unwanted, even when it is physically imperfect. I believe our society has a responsibility to defend the vulnerable and the weak. And I believe our nation should set a goal that unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

  "Parental Notification Law". Jun 7, 1999.

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• I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

  Ian Brown

  Brother, Uncles, Father

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• Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

  Henry Campbell Black

  Exercise, Rights, Law

  Henry Campbell Black (1910). “Handbook of American Constitutional Law”

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

  Ronan Farrow

  Brother, Father, Law

  "Son's tweet puts Woody Allen in harsh spotlight -- again" By Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2014.

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• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Animal, Rights, Law

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• To his sister-in-law: What a contrast between us! You live a warm and glowing life, surrounded by loved ones whom you care for and who care for you; you are anchored in contentment. I drift about without rudder or compass, a wreck on the sea of life; I have no memories to cheer me, no pleasant illusions of the future to comfort me, or about me to satisfy my vanity. I have no family to furnish the only kind of survival that concerns us, no friends for the wholesome development of my affections, or enemies for my malice.

  Alfred Nobel

  Sister, Cheer, Memories

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• My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting.

  Anthony Doerr

  Sister In Law, Skills, Long

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Law, Peta

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• I remember distinctly telling my father-in-law, barring a miracle, we're going to have to terminate the pregnancy. Her health has to come first

  Chris Higgins

  Father, Pregnancy, Law

  "Faith, medical technology save a young mom" By Rhonda Rowland, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2002.

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

  Charlotte Ross

  Cancer, Sister In Law, My Future

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

  Helen A. Rosburg

  Daughter, Travel, Son

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• Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

  Ian Botham

  Mother, Men, Law

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