Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.
No it doesn’t. At most the world no longer has depth perception.
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”
You do realise that people who are awake during the night are of equal importance, who’s gonna run those power plants and radio stations and petrol service stations and police forces and whatever else? If they shut off during the night, there’d be chaos. At least a chaos that most folks won’t see because they’re asleep or something.
To be fair: The people messing up their bio rhythms doing night shift after night shift might not necessarily be considered ‘healthy’.
“Literally 1984”… unless I’m asking you what year the Macintosh 128k came out I don’t wanna hear it.
“Blood is thicker than water” a misquote of “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” which has the exact opposite meaning.
That’s not actually true (according to Wikipedia and a few other sources, at least). The ‘blood is thicker than water’ saying has been around for centuries in various forms with the current meaning, and the covenant/womb variation is relatively recent, and mostly stems from a few books that claim that it’s the ‘real meaning’ without sources or proof.
Thank you so much for saying this! One time there was a Twitter thread that started with someone asking, “What are some things that people believe/accept without having liked into it further.” Someone responded with this “the original phrase is… covenant…womb” and the OP replied with someone like, “yeah people are such sheep”. I wanted to explode.
But to back your point, you can go and read for yourself the very first instance of this phrase in context as the very old book it comes from has been digitally scanned. It’s old enough to be in middle English, but I still thought it was fairly easy to make out the original phrase as we know it today.
“The cloud is just someone else’s computers.”
If that’s what you really think the cloud is, still, then you are a dinosaur who is not evolving with the times.
