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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
Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out. -- Matthew Broderick
Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent. -- Nick Lowe
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
I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do. -- Marlee Matlin
I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. -- Mindy Kaling
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. -- H. L. Mencken
Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law. -- Mark Twain
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her. -- Ken Dodd
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel. -- Josh Billings
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. -- Henny Youngman
Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks. -- Chanda Kochhar
don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life. -- Lisa Scottoline
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. -- Phyllis Diller
I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps. -- Les Dawson
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.' -- Joan Rivers
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. -- Henny Youngman
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
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
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
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.' -- Les Dawson
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
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
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself. -- Robert Bork
I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women. -- Sushmita Banerjee
When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws' pool. It was just like a spandex one-piece, completely modest, and yet people were looking at me like it was obscene. -- Heidi Murkoff
If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well. -- Martha Beck
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see. -- Angela Bassett
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. -- Anais Nin
Laws are inoperative in war -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws without morals are in vain. -- Benjamin Franklin
Laws are silent in time of war. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no justice in following unjust laws. -- Aaron Swartz
In time of war the laws are silent. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laws are dumb in the midst of arms. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws. -- Charles Darwin
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! -- Dan Castellaneta
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. -- Publilius Syrus
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. -- C. S. Lewis
Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time. -- Mark Twain
Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent. -- Immanuel Kant
Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. -- George Gaylord Simpson
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. -- Tacitus
I was in another universe with different laws and distinct truth. -- Toba Beta
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Heaven is space in universe that has unique laws of nature. -- Toba Beta
The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity. -- E. O. Wilson
I see as white people finding loopholes in the slavery laws. -- Chris Rock
As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws. -- Charles Kingsley
Only the man who lives in the laws of GOD is free -- Abd-Ru-Shin
You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder ... -- George Sand
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. -- Thomas Huxley
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws. -- Bill Dedman
Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon. -- Jerry Coleman
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. -- Edward Gibbon
A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws. -- Trofim Lysenko
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war). -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that. -- Allen Toussaint
Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws. -- George Carlin
I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be. -- Sonia Gandhi
The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein
In physics, all can you do is predict the consequences of physical laws. -- Leonard Mlodinow
You must begin to live in harmony with the laws governing the universe. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible. -- Mark Twain
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws. -- Antonin Artaud
If harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them. -- Jane Goodall
The libel laws in Australia are a lot tougher than they are in America. -- Jacki Weaver
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. -- Theodor Adorno
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. -- Walter E. Williams
Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws. -- Karl Kraus
The ethics laws do not let us tap out the truth in Morse code. -- Ron Wyden
He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States. -- Peter Camejo
Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
In Islam, the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. -- James McHenry
The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family. -- Judith Martin
I've taken advantage of the laws. And frankly, so has everybody else in my position. -- Donald Trump
Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. -- Aristotle
Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind. -- Francis Bacon
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. -- Otto von Bismarck
It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly! -- Enrico Fermi
I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive. -- Michael Moore
Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws. -- Megan Whalen Turner
Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order... -- Thomas Paine
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. -- Marco Rubio
[S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions. -- Stephanie Coontz
The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws. -- Cynthia McKinney
Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. -- Galileo Galilei
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba... -- Gilberto Gil
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. -- Thomas Jefferson
HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes. -- Shereen El Feki
Blackhole doesn't crush those things in the vicinity.It miniaturises everything in different laws of physics. -- Toba Beta
Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them. -- John Updike
One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. -- Iain Banks
The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made. -- Ferruccio Busoni
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite. -- Heather Brooke
Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe. -- Charles Hard Townes
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. -- Alvin Francis Poussaint
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. -- Henry David Thoreau
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country. -- Diane Abbott
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. -- Henry David Thoreau
In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals. -- Marianne Thieme
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. -- Alexander Pope
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. -- Emile M. Cioran
There are ideas that exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws -- Charles Brockden Brown
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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