Old Wives Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is… — Melissa Etheridge
• I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're… — Eileen Davidson
• Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward,… — Theodore Dreiser
• I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock… — Dorothy Parker
• For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which… — W. Somerset Maugham
• Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the… — 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 with… — Charles Lamb
• Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history,… — Steven Tyler

Who Wrote These Old Wives Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Old Wives Quotes as follows:

• 2 Old Wives Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Old Wives Quote by Charles Lamb
• 1 Old Wives Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 Old Wives Quote by Steven Tyler
• 1 Old Wives Quote by Melissa Etheridge
• 1 Old Wives Quote by Eileen Davidson
• 1 Old Wives Quote by Theodore Dreiser
• 1 Old Wives Quote by Dorothy Parker