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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
I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth. -- Melissa Etheridge
I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes on or you're going to get sick!' That's an old wives' tale, but it's like some weird mind control that I would be like that. -- Eileen Davidson
He tells old wives' tales much to the point. -- Horace
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
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
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
Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the same way as clichÃ©s or old wives' tales do. -- Jimmy Carr

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