What is a common quote or saying that makes no sense? Please explain why you think so.

Share a common quote or saying that makes no sense. Please explain why you think so.
For example, "you're only as young as you feel."

The saying is, at best, ambiguous - at worst, dangerously misleading.

How one feels is not merely a matter of optimism or magical thinking;
it's far more likely to be an objective indicator of good health.

Research shows that people's chronological age is often very different to their real physical age.
A fit sixty-year-old can have the bone density, heart-rate and energy of a forty-year-old,
while an obese forty-year-old can have diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Very old and self explanatory! 😈😁

[quote]I know a ditty nutty as a fruitcake
Goofy as a goon and silly as a loon
Some call it pretty, others call it crazy
But they all sing this tune:

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?[/quote]

hartfire

@DeWayfarer I guess if something's meant to be silly we can just relax and not worry about trying to puzzle it out.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@hartfire now what's the fun in giving up? 😈

Might as well give up on the common sayings then and not complain about them to begin with! 😊

hartfire

@DeWayfarer I don't think there's any riddle there to be worked out.

Like "Jabberwocky", writers sometimes invent things that have little or no meaning just to play with the musicality of language.

Actually "Jabberwocky" follows a classic heroic myth and serves as a parable for a father's love and a son's longing to earn it.

Jabberwocky
BY LEWIS CARROLL
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@hartfire now you are contradicting yourself. Something without meaning that does have meaning! A parable! 😁

I defy you to give meaning to:[quote]Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?[/quote]

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