Quotes About Mother-in-law

On the whole, a woman isn't keen on her mother-in-law if she's controlling, disapproving, or interfering. Mine is a triple major in the ings and took extra night classes in calculating just for kicks. The woman is a hate nerd.

My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies.

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

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

Russell will never forget the reaction of Dantzel's mother when she discovered that he was having Dantzel work two jobs and bleeding her in between. It was said that behind every successful man is a surprised mother in law.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."

He felt it would hardly delight his fiancee should he reveal his true opinion, which was that his future mother-in-law's profile had struck him as so alarming that he would prefer in future to view only its muted reflection, perhaps on the surface of a tea tray.

He drank a quarter of the drink, then topped off the glass with more Jim Beam. Joe was not much of a drinker anymore, although he'd done more than his share in college and when he worked with Vern. But his intake of alcohol always increased proportionately when his mother-in-law was around.

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

Adriana had so well profited by the good counsel of her mother-in-law, that she never after cherished unjust suspicions, or was jealous of her husband.[Pg 189]

I do most of the cooking at home, and both my mom and my mother-in-law are excellent chefs. However, I wouldn't call myself a chef.

He must really be a big success - even his mother-in-law admits it.

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."

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.

You can easily tell he's a newlywed because he's still smiling at his mother-in-law.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.

Personally, I wear a lot of my mother-in-law's chiffons and my mother's silk. But when I buy saris for myself, then they have to be understated.

Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.

But desperation is the mother-in-law of invention.

It was colder than a mother-in-law's glare out here.

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

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