Chance Quote by 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

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for…

— Anonymous

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

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old…

— Charles Frazier

One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

— Samuel Johnson

He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

— Horace

it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices, rather than…

— Henry Thomas Buckle

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

— Diane Keaton

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no…

— Walter Scott

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

— Anonymous

“She knew from listening to her grandmother that old age was made up of such remembrances of youth. But she didn’t want to recall…

— Betty Smith