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Quotes About In-laws

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.
~ Phil McGraw
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
~ Samuel Richardson
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
~ Florence King
Marry a child of the devil and you're going to have problems with your father-in-law.
~ Proverb
People feel very ashamed to admit that they have in-law problems. They think it's something petty. But it's not petty at all. It hits deep emotions.
~ Christine Leunens
Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.
~ Phyllis Diller
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
My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'
~ Bob Monkhouse
Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.
~ Jeanine Basinger
It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.
~ Richard Russo
Miles smiled. Can you keep a secret? Bea snorted. Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter? No, Miles conceded. Well, then, she said, as if that settled the matter.
~ Richard Russo
It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated.
~ Richard Russo
In-laws were often used as plot devices to drive a happy couple apart, to destroy marital love and trust.
~ Jeanine Basinger
Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.
~ Jeanine Basinger
The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.
~ Jeanine Basinger
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Sometimes I bring Kabir with me on sets else my in laws take care of him. When Yash is not out at work, he looks after him. We are not a family to leave our children to care takers.
~ Amrapali Gupta
I'm taking Emma from this place tonight." Annika tilted her head as if to see him better. Emma did that, too. Emma had gotten it from this woman. "Never would I give my daughter to a dog." No man had in-laws like these.
~ Kresley Cole
Mother-in-laws are the worst. You know, they don't like you, they make you feel bad about yourself, they have a divorce party the day you meet them and you have to face the fact that they are crazy. Plus, if you aren't very sure of yourself, you may start feeling like you are going that way too.
~ Laura Dave
Bogie did not believe in in-laws living with husband and wife, and he didn't believe in anyone dropping in, relatives, even mothers, included. His rule was absolute: Call before and wait for an invitation. His home was sacred, and privacy to be respected.
~ Lauren Bacall
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law
~ Dick Clark
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon.
~ Jerry Coleman