Trevor Noah Quotes

Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

The institution of marriage has been something that - we have a very temperamental relationship, marriage and I. I've seen a lot of not great examples of it.

[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?

Eloiseis getting married as well.” “Eloise?” Michael asked with some surprise. “Was she even being courted by anyone?” “No,” Francesca said, quickly flipping to the third sheet of her mother‟s letter. “It‟s someone she‟s never met.” “Well, I imagine she‟s met him now,” Michael said in a dry voice.

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I used to have to sneak off to see him.

My mother wasnʹt sleeping with anybody. She doesnʹt even sleep with my father.

When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.

You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

Husbands, love your wives well! Your children are noticing how you treat her. You are teaching your sons how they should treat women, and you are teaching your daughters what they should expect from men.