Sigmund Freud Quotes

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.

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

They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

When I see siblings in some families not get along, I just struggle with that. My wife says I need to be more real about it, but I just can't believe it when it happens.

Who hasn't had an argument with their mother-in-law?

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong.

Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

My mother-in-law must be the probation officer I got for the crime I committed of marrying my husband.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

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

The wife's Mother said, ‘When you're dead, I'll dance in your grave.’ I said: ‘Good, I'm being buried at sea’.

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.

Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

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.

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

I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."