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:
“...it is decidedly an advantage to American homes that so many of the wives and mothers have served as teachers before becoming house-directors. ...”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)
“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)