Old wives' tales may refer to:
- Old wives' tales, sayings of popular wisdom (usually incorrect) passed down from generation to generation.
- Old Wives Tales, an EP by Joy Electric.
Famous quotes containing the words wives and/or tales:
“Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)