Old Wives Quotes
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She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.
— Robert Ludlum
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
TITANIA My Oberon! what visions have I seen! Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.
— William Shakespeare
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.
— Louisa May Alcott
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
— Natasha Leggero
He stretches forth in our soul,
Teaches our arms how to reach.
Our feet He has shod,
With His gospel of peace. — Kari L. Greenaway
Teaches our arms how to reach.
Our feet He has shod,
With His gospel of peace. — Kari L. Greenaway
Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.
— Jerome K. Jerome
And it isn't a mistake in taste, like believing that the Matrix sequels were as good as the original.
— Paul Bloom
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
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
For example, the notion that getting chilled can cause one to catch a cold is dismissed as an old wives' tale by many usually reliable sources.
— Sherry Seethaler
I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.
— Mark Twain
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.
— Deion Sanders
Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
— Nicolas Chamfort
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
— Andrea Dworkin
We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.
— Anne Fortier
There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'
— William Cosmo Monkhouse