Quotes that you hate

[Booze Zombie]

Ever hear the quote "Peace through superior fire power"?

Some people see violence as a tool of peace.

Oh, I don't see America's war actions like that, which is probably where my annoyance at the quote comes from.

To me, every American war is just about grabbing as much loot as possible and trying to tell the victims that America is the hero.

That and I think Dick Chaney is an asshole.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

'We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars.'

The only people who use that, you might as well substitute 'some of us are' for 'I am.' Only people who are pretentious and want to say that they are better in some way than others use it anything other than ironically.

Whenever I use it, I use it when with a group of people who I know are all arrogant enough to do the subtitution I mentioned above. It's hilarious watching them all fluff up a little as they think 'that's right, I am looking up at the stars.'

Pricks.

 

[ironphoenix]

The phrase "inhumane treatment of animals". They are animals, not humans, hence their treatment should be inhumane.

 

[Dark-Dreymer]

"Your Mom" as an insult on its own is something that grates on me. The point of a "Your Mom" joke is to slip it into a conversation or argument on the back of the last statement made by the person you're directing it at to imply a stated quality is shared or expressed particularly noticeably by their mother. "Your Mom" on its own isn't an insult, in fact it's not even a sentence.

"Rome wasn't built in a day" gets to me as well. I ordered a coffee, not an Empire! Just tell me it'll be a sec, 'kay. No need to be so snooty about it.

 

[PureChaos]

'the Lord works in mysterious ways'
'seek and ye shall find'
'if you don't know then i'm not going to tell you'

probably a few others but i'm late getting back for work so gotta run

 

[144_v1legacy]

"Great minds think alike"

This may be true but people use it as a compliment toward themselves by trying to take it backwards. "Oh, you also thought about firing bottle rockets up you nose? Man, great minds do think alike". I started to coin "Similar minds think alike". That was stupid, tautologous, and said nothing. So I started saying "Great minds think alike iff the minds are first proven great".

I used to share a disdain for this quote, as it was often said after two people agreed on a foolish plan.

I did some research.

Voltaire, the presumable writer, wrote it. It's part one of a two-part quote. The second part is "and fools seldom differ."

I.e., great minds think alike, but idiots do too. Also, another interpretation is along the lines of "great minds may think alike, but idiots never strive to think differently."

 

[Manji187]

"If you want peace...prepare for war"

I favor: "War is a racket...always has been."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried"

...all the others have been tried. Right. If that is really the case, think of something new...oh wait.."democracy" won't allow it.

 

[zxBARRICADExz]

anyone that says "U Mad?" or "cool story Bro"

and anyone who says "Bro"..i want to throw kitten-based Nuclear weapons at them from a slingshot made of their dead hamsters bones..

 

[Rinji]

I hate it when people quote "eye for an eye" and don't know what it means!

It's not a call for revenge, but justice and fairness. I don't have the right to kill someone just because he punched me in the face. The punishment should fit the crime. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

"You can't have your cake and eat it to."

A teacher once said this with a great deal of arrogance. She didn't like it when I said "What's the point then. Why have a cake at all if you aren't going to eat it. What else are you going to do with it." I'm still waiting for an answer, 15 years later

 

[ajofflight]

"Pain is fear leaving the body", most often worn by some "extreme" guy on a t-shirt drinking Mountain Dew and... some extreme verb...
Pain is PAIN. It means "Holy crap, this is damaging me, it's time to stop!"

 

[Bedewyr]

"Pain is fear leaving the body", most often worn by some "extreme" guy on a t-shirt drinking Mountain Dew and... some extreme verb...
Pain is PAIN. It means "Holy crap, this is damaging me, it's time to stop!"

Isn't it suppose to be "Pain is weakness leaving the body."?

Pain doesn't mean it's damaging me, time to stop.

Pain means a myriad of things. I need to stop is just one. When exercising, you generally feel some degree of pain or "burn" but, you shouldn't stop. You feel pain afterward as well. Exercise, however, is good for you. So in that case Pain = Gain.

"You can't have your cake and eat it to."

A teacher once said this with a great deal of arrogance. She didn't like it when I said "What's the point then. Why have a cake at all if you aren't going to eat it. What else are you going to do with it." I'm still waiting for an answer, 15 years later

Here's your answer.

The syntax on that quote is horrible and if you flip it around (or have a crazy grasp of English) it becomes much easier to understand.

"You can't eat your cake and have it too."

Basically what it means is you can't have 2 opposing wants at the same time.

Ie. I want to date a beautiful incredible girl/guy who wants a relationship but, I want to continue to mess around. They won't go for it.

Cake = guy/girl
Having in too = messing around as well

2 ideas that are mutually exclusive.

Personally the quotes I like are:

"Everybody Lies." - House

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he
does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless
thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless."

-Oscar Wilde

The ones I dislike... well.. there aren't really any. I like the history and word choice and to examine them. It's fun.

 

[crudus]

Well I've often heard the addendum:

"But fools seldom differ."

That could've been the original quote even.

Edit: Wiki quote says it is, or at least uses the full quote only. So it's actually ironic that people use that phrase to boast.

I.e., great minds think alike, but idiots do too. Also, another interpretation is along the lines of "great minds may think alike, but idiots never strive to think differently."

Oh awesome. That just made my day. It is like the phrase "Killing two birds with one stone's throw". It is easy to kill two birds with one stone(it doesn't even need to be done in quick succession). I am going to say this more often now that I know the correct ending to this.

"You can't have your cake and eat it to."

A teacher once said this with a great deal of arrogance. She didn't like it when I said "What's the point then. Why have a cake at all if you aren't going to eat it. What else are you going to do with it." I'm still waiting for an answer, 15 years later

It took me a long time to figure this one out as well. It deals with the first law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy). You cannot eat your cake and still have it after you are done eating it. There cannot be a cake still in front of you after you ate it. I don't know why they started saying it that way. It just causes confusion.

It was originally put as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" (John Heywood). Which aside from the old English makes a lot more sense than the version we have today.

 

[Mcface]

I hate when people quote that " cake is a lie," thing.

This so hard.
that shit makes me cringe every time i see it quoted.

 

[Mcface]

Ever hear the quote "Peace through superior fire power"?

Some people see violence as a tool of peace.

Oh, I don't see America's war actions like that, which is probably where my annoyance at the quote comes from.

To me, every American war is just about grabbing as much loot as possible and trying to tell the victims that America is the hero.

That and I think Dick Chaney is an asshole.

Well, the war in the middle east (that has been going for decades) is due to a few factors. The U.S. played a role, but England was occupying a few countries do look after their oil interests long before the U.S. got involved.

We're all as bad as each other.

Lasting peace has never been achieved without war.

as for the whole "loot" bit.. what the hell is there to gain in Afghanistan? It's rocks and dirt.

 

[Gentleman_Reptile]

"Keep an open mind"

Tim Minchin put it best when he said "If you open your mind too much your brain will fall out"

 

[Veloxe]

"Oh ya well, your mom is a *whatever we were talking about*"

Or any of the "your mom" stuff.

- "OVER 9000!"
- Any Family Guy Quote (Especially when people think they have great imitations of certain characters)
- "Blame Canada!"
- "The best defense is a good offense"
- "God works in mysterious ways."

 

[MGlBlaze]

"Great minds think alike"

This may be true but people use it as a compliment toward themselves by trying to take it backwards. "Oh, you also thought about firing bottle rockets up you nose? Man, great minds do think alike". I started to coin "Similar minds think alike". That was stupid, tautologous, and said nothing. So I started saying "Great minds think alike iff the minds are first proven great".

I think the full quote is "Great minds think alike and fools seldom differ", but I think that's only here in the UK. People tend to forget the last bit.

Anyway, the only quote I really hate (so far) is 'the cake is a lie'. Seriously, that isn't even a funny part of Portal.
...Well, okay, there's also the retards who feel the compulsion to post 'first!' on things as if the first comment equated to worth as a life-form.