Daughter In Law Quotes:

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

topic: Daughter, Men, Law, Daughter In Law

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: Mother, Humor, Successful, Mother In Law, Successful Man

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

topic: Marriage, Daughter, Husband, Daughter In Law, Synonym

But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced.

- Wanda Sykes

topic: Daughter, Mother, Law, Mother In Law, Daughter In Law

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

- Mitt Romney

source: Interview with Damon Beres, www.rd.com.

topic: Daughter, Family Guy, Son, Daughter In Law

One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.

- Helen A. Rosburg

topic: Daughter, Travel, Son, Daughter In Law

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'

- Johnny Weir

topic: Mom, Mother, Daughter, Daughter In Law

When the purpose of the appointment to ,cohabit with the widow bas been attained in accordance with the law, those two shall behave towards each other like a father and a daughter in law.

- Guru Nanak

topic: Daughter, Father, Law, Daughter In Law

I just think to be in that place, to be surrounded as I will and for my brief moment in the inauguration ceremony by my wife and by my children and my daughter-in-law, with family looking on from behind us in the platform and many Hoosiers coming to be out in the crowds, I expect - it's again, it will be very, very humbling.

- Mike Pence

source: Source: www.dailyjournal.net

topic: Daughter, Children, Thinking, Daughter In Law, Inauguration

Well, let's say Asian. Some are Japanese. Some are Chinese. Some are Thai. Some are Vietnamese. He runs the gamut. And I actually happen to have a very dear daughter-in-law who's Japanese. I don't know what she's going to make of the film, but I say a few disparaging things.

- Jacki Weaver

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Daughter, Running, Law, Daughter In Law, Disparaging

My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

- Soren Kierkegaard

source: Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

topic: Daughter, Fall, Mean, Third Place, Daughter In Law

I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.

- Erma Bombeck

topic: Daughter, Mother, Dream, Daughter In Law, Ambivalent

If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.

- R.K. Narayan

source: R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.88, Penguin Books India

topic: Daughter, Mother, Law, Daughter In Law, In-laws

The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.

- William Rathbone Greg

source: William Rathbone Greg (1851). “The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure”, p.98

topic: Daughter, Son, Men, Luke, Daughter In Law