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Quotes About Mother-in-law

Adam was the luckiest of men; he had no mother-in-law.
~ Proverb
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 me with a beady eye.
~ Wilbur Smith
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
The only woman a wife should ever be jealous of is her husband's mom.
~ Jason Thomas
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
~ Henny Youngman
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.
~ Lenny Bruce
My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.
~ 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 I said, 'Mother, don't just stand there in the rain. Go home.'
~ Les Dawson
I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
~ Les Dawson
What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?
~ Nancy Reagan
The wife's Mother said, 'When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.' I said: 'Good, I'm being buried at sea'.
~ Les Dawson
Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.
~ Henny Youngman
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
~ David Mamet
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
My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.
~ Gary Delaney
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
Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.
~ Ian Botham
Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law.
~ Jean-Louis Gassee
Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
~ Lou Holtz
My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
~ Les Dawson
My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.
~ Les Dawson
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
~ Les Dawson
Maybe I shouldn't mouth off to the elemental I kinda hoped was my future mother-in-law.
~ Kiersten White