Inspirational Quote by Anonymous

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed…

— Charles Lamb

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

— Vincent Massey

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

— Horace

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to…

— Dorothy Parker

“The tale is, in large part, our capital. I was nourished on tales...when an old person dies, a whole library disappears.”

— Simone Schwarz-Bart

“Although Branwen had no patience for dry lists of names and dates, she had always loved the thrilling tales of the old wars that…

— Frewin Jones

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's…

— George Sand

“When we are young, we are read fairy tales. When we are old, we are read religious tales.”

— Saad Ireland

“He fills my head with tales from the ancient forests, tales so old that the trees themselves call them legends. It is as if…

— Maryrose Wood

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

— Stendhal