Wives Tales Sayings

#1. He tells old wives' tales much to the point.

Horace

#2. Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

Darlene Arden

#3. So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is - other people!

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. 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, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

Theodore Dreiser

#5. Old wives' tales - that is, worthless stories, untruths, trivial gossip, a derisive label that allots the art of storytelling to women at the exact same time as it takes all value from it.

Angela Carter

#6. 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

#7. 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 around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen.
[From a column dated November 17, 1928]

Dorothy Parker

#8. Love spells are nothing but wives' tales. You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.

Nora Roberts

#9. And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.

Melinda M. Snodgrass

#10. Words are the true weapons of mass destruction

Steve Berry

#11. When they are unclear about your WHY, WHAT you do has no context. Even though

Simon Sinek

#12. 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 geography and natural history!

Charles Lamb

#13. My life is so full of sacrifices.

Zubin Mehta

#14. The world, he said, must face the sad fact that in an age when international cooperation should be the keyword, nations are farther apart than ever.

Erik Larson

#15. 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 wise to know.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. When it comes to measuring the effectiveness of your engagement in the social media environment what counts are: Comments and Sentiment.

David Amerland