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:
“What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night!
Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the
tomatoes!—and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by
the watermelons?”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“Shall we rest us here,
And by relating tales of others’ griefs,
See if ‘twill teach us to forget our own?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)