I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
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.
Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.
I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.
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.
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.
The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.
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.
Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.
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.'
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.
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.
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.
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
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.
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.'
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
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