Top 1200 Old Wives Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Wickets are like wives, you never know which way they will turn!

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock 'n' roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now.

Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.

Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.

I know it sounds like I'm playing all these wives and girlfriends, but they're not waiting at home. I wear the pants.

It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read, I need protection from the things in my head . . .

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

It's no secret that many tales of tween stardom have had unhappy endings.

All my wives were great housekeepers. After every divorce, they kept the house.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

I did 'Footballer's Wives' for two-and-a-half seasons and I asked to be written out.

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

The government can spy on people using their mobile phones while they're with their wives and husbands.

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.

Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich.