Quotes about In-law
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.
- Anonymous
After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,
- Exodus 18:2
He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”
- Exodus 18:6
Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own land.
- Exodus 18:27
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Deuteronomy 27:23
His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay, so he remained with him three days, eating, drinking, and lodging there.
- Judges 19:4
The man got up to depart, but his father-in-law persuaded him, so he stayed there that night.
- Judges 19:7
“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
- 1 Samuel 18:21
the father who is the natural enemy of any son and son-in-law of whom the mother is the ally, just as after the wedding the father will be the ally of the actual son-in-law who has for mortal foe the mother of his wife.
- William Faulkner
"So you want to become my son-in-law." "Not exactly. I just want to marry your daughter."
- Anonymous
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation.
- Anonymous