Mother In Law Quotes

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

  Ken Dodd

  Mother, Law, Months

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

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Mother, Witty

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• Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

  Henny Youngman

  Inspirational, Funny, Family

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

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

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Men, Law

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• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Freedom, Law

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Mother, Humor, Successful

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• I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

  Henny Youngman

  Mother, Nice, Law

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

  Caroline Pafford Miller

  Mother, Law, World

  Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

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

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Sex Maniac, Law

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

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

  Benjamin Walker

  Mother, Stars, Law

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

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Mother, Law, Political

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• My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Mother, Pain

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• The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

  John Grisham

  Mother, Law, Wife

  John Grisham (2011). “Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber”, p.612, Dell

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

  Lou Gehrig

  Daughter, Mother, Law

  Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

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• Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

  Lou Holtz

  Mother, Successful, Law

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• I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Mother, Humorous

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• Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

  Josh Billings

  Mother, Law, Boards

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• The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mother, Distance, Thinking

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• If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Mother, Eye, Law

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• I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Moving, Law

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

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• Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

  St. Jerome

  Mother, Men, Law

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• The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace."

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Sorry, Husband

  "Pope Francis' top 10 most quotable quotes of the year" by Carol Glatz, www.catholicnews.com. February 28, 2014.

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• My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

  John Barrymore

  Girl, Mother, Wife

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• I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

  Lord Byron

  Mother, Good Day, Law

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.338, Routledge

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• I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married, I now value as serenity.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Law, Appreciate

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