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Quotes About In-laws

Why should anyone be rewarded for defeating a dragon by being saddled with a dowryless, freckled wife and well over a dozen daft and impoverished in-laws? No
~ Jessica Day George
Behind every successful enterprise, there is a supporting wife and surprised in-laws.
~ Scott Cook
I get along so well with my wife's mom.
~ Henry Golding
The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.
~ Judith Martin
When the best you can get from your wife's father is that he won't help to kill you, it doesn't take a clever man to see you're in shit to your chin.
~ Joe Abercrombie
If marriage were outlawed, only outlaws would have in-laws.
~ Anonymous
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates
~ Samuel Richardson
I am a man of many in-laws and I would be obliged to concede that only ten per cent or less are troublesome and less than five per cent are truly perverted. Not a bad ratio at all...
~ John B. Keane
A woman who remains connected with her mother via a communication link to convey on a daily or a weekly basis the things about her in-laws members as what they eat, drink and think; normally likes the man of the house to act like a weak mouse before her & so naturally always keeps her married life on the brink of the failure.
~ Anuj Somany
He who adores his mother-in-law is perhaps bigger fool than a man who is admired by his mother-in-law.
~ Anuj Somany
He whose in-laws are happy with him is sleepy for not even knowing as how his wife controls his life.
~ Anuj Somany
There is neither a law that protects nor a medicine that cures a man from the fury and mental injury inflicted by his mother-in-law.
~ Anuj Somany
I am lucky that my in-laws are incredibly special people and I love them dearly. My father-in-law is an extraordinary man and my mom-in-law a beautiful and brave woman.
~ Riya Sen
It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to their grown kids to do it and enforce them.
~ Phil McGraw
We serve a God who can make even in-law relationships wonderful! — Cindy Sipula
~ Gary Chapman
A husband should never let his wife visit her mother unattended.
~ balzac honore de xv
When two hearts beat as one, there are in-laws to bond with, or, in my family's case, outlaws. But for our first years Warren and I never go to Texas, not once. (Later, I'll resent this like hell, but I don't recall arguing about it much.) Daddy's dying in the house I grew up in, while Mother begrudgingly nurses him.
~ Mary Karr
Once you start rummaging around in the realm of the unverifiable there is considerable room for creativity, and accusations of sorcery are often blended with self-serving motives. Tribal people, anthropologists have shown, often single out despised in-laws for allegations of witchcraft, a convenient
~ Steven Pinker
My in-laws don't let me do much household chores so maximum of time is devoted to my four-year-old son Kabir.
~ Amrapali Gupta
I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
My in-laws are from Bhagalpur district in Bihar and they are great devotees of Hanuman.
~ Amrapali Gupta
Love by faith. Love our enemies by faith. Love our neighbors by faith. Love fellow believers by faith. Love our family members by faith. Love our spouses by faith. Love our in-laws by faith. Love a rebellious teenager by faith. Love our betrayer by faith. Love an ill and bitter parent by faith. Love by faith, not just by feeling.
~ Beth Moore
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
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.
~ Jane Smiley