This collection holds 61 mother in law quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Les Dawson, Hubert H. Humphrey and Dervla Kirwan.

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The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

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

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

I am very close to my mother-in-law, Lee, we see each other often.

A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

I use mother-in-law jokes, kid jokes, tax jokes - anything that works.

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

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

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

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

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

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

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

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.

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

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

I think, more than my husband, my mother-in-law gets excited and proud and what not whenever she sees me on-screen.

Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

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

Both my mother-in-law and Rajiv made it easy for me. I feel very Indian and am not conscious of being an Italian in India.

My mother-in-law thinks I'm more beautiful than all the other faces around. She keeps encouraging me to take up more work.

You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.

I was extremely close to my mother-in-law and after she, and later my father-in-law passed away, I continue to feel their presence.

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.

You either get to play a vicious mother-in-law who hates the bahu, or makkhis and naagins. There is no creative satisfaction in TV.

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

I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

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.

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

The final scenes in 'Rain' are just like my mother-in-law when she would sit under the window in my sitting room - one foot in the other world and just holding on.

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.

My mother-in-law is an awesome cook, but I have grown up eating the food cooked by my mother. I must say that both of them have their own area of specialisation, when it comes to cooking.

Indian-ness, love for your country, is complicated. For every person, there is a different way that you show respect for your country... my mother-in-law will say karmayogi is the way to go - do your work.

Honestly, people can write anything they want about me and I could care less, but once you start writing stuff about my family, my wife and my daughter and son or my mother-in-law, then you're drawing a line.

The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.

I think that what I do, in terms of how I craft my words rhetorically, is fairly simple stuff. I don't mean that to denigrate myself. I mean that in the sense of, when I write, the person that I keep in mind is my mother-in-law.

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.

I find it beautiful when we're in Italy that everybody sits down at the table together. My mother-in-law is like, 'It doesn't matter what's going on in the house, who is fighting, who is upset, who has appointments, you sit down at that table at one o'clock.'

My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.

It's funny, you know: my mother-in-law, who doesn't have an ounce of nerd in her, is just so excited by the fact that I write 'Batman' because she'll see an article about me in the 'Washington Post' or 'The Wall Street Journal' or something. And that means so much to me.

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.

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

My mother-in-law Vickie is an amazing person and has been nothing but helpful and supportive. She helps with the little things, dealing with being on the road and being away from home and how to keep up communication and little things like where the best hotels are, how to find a gym, little things on the road.

Himanshu and I travel together whenever possible, but there are times when I like to travel with my mother and maasi. It is really shocking that trolls comment on that, too. They say 'Don't you get along with your mother-in-law that you don't take her along?' Now, who would accept such remarks about one's mother?

My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

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

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