# Stupid Quotations You Hate To Hear **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 19, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241 "2012-04-19T03:42:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/101 "2012-04-26T20:42:08Z")
> [@RedWood](#): > > Quasi: > some light on your original post 🙂 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pevTrRGd0ks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pevTrRGd0ks) “Nice” and “Awesome”, **RedWood**! 😉 I like both those guys! Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/102 "2012-04-26T20:49:44Z")
“The late, great \_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_” Overused DJ phrase. WTF, man??? What if the guy was Hitler? What? It rhymes? Oh… well go ahead then, 'cause rhyming’s important. Q ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/103 "2012-04-26T20:52:22Z")
“You gotta spend money to make money.” I spent some time on the sales staff of my radio station, and this was the pep talk we goT Q ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/104 "2012-04-26T21:13:49Z")
> [@SanDiegoTim](#): > > I feel like bitch slapping anyone who responds with “Whatever.” I know, right? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/105 "2012-04-26T21:17:18Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > “You gotta spend money to make money.” I don’t like this too much but I also dislike its opposite. There’s an internet ad out there, I forget for what, that say “mama always told you, ‘don’t spend money to make money’”. Actually, I’ve never heard anyone say that, least of all my mama. Many people have expressed that same idea, but it’s hardly a famous old wives advice. ---
**Author:** ![coolbyrne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@coolbyrne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coolbyrne)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/106 "2012-04-27T01:08:18Z")
Mrs coolbyrne and I use the one-two punch of “It is what it is” with “You just gotta keep on keepin’ on”. Both are wretched in their false bravery. One I don’t hear too often, but still irritates me when I do hear it- “If you want things in your life to change, you have to change the things in your life”. And the aforementioned, “When God closes a door, he opens a window.” Too bad the window’s on the 30th floor. Ah well, it is what it is! Just gotta keep on keepin’ on! ---
**Author:** ![Macarooney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Macarooney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macarooney)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/107 "2012-04-27T05:11:57Z")
If I didn’t just delete over a hundred people from my Facebook yesterday (most of them being stupid girls from high school), I would have an entire laundry list right now. The one that I really hate at the moment, that a lot of youngsters these days say: "You only live once. "Or “Live, laugh, love.” No. Fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![Mopal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Mopal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mopal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/108 "2012-04-30T16:48:26Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:87, topic:619241”] Ditto when I hear cancer survivors referred to as “heroes.” Really? Go look up the word hero. [/QUOTE] Hero is a word that’s constantly misused these days including frequently when the word should be victim. ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/109 "2012-05-01T02:22:34Z")
\ At work… “I don’t find my job rewarding.” Really? Too bad. You were hired to work. You work, we pay you; conversely you don’t work, we will fire you. You want self fulfillment, great–but you are here to work. Go study Maslow’s hierarchy. Personal… “Love conquers all”/“love is the most important thing” No. It does/is not. Water, food, warmth, shelter, safety, clothing you need to survive. Hollywood/the media wants you to believe that self actualization is the most important thing in life. They are wrong. Send them to a relocation camp in southern Sudan for a year without resources, then ask them again. \ ---
**Author:** ![Imago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/85e7bf/32.png) [@Imago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imago)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/110 "2012-05-01T04:08:57Z")
I can’t _stand_ when someone deflects every question involving the word “why” with a “Why not?” It’s a childish, egotistical copout for people who don’t want to think things through or take a smidge of responsibility for anything. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/111 "2012-05-01T04:22:44Z")
The latest corporate cliche doing the rounds here is “reach out to” which I find teeth-grittingly loathsome; no-one ever talks to or emails anyone any more, they [del]retch over them[/del] reach out to them. > [@67java89](#): > > “Garbage in, garbage out”. This never made any sense to me, yet it’s way overused by some parents regarding what they let their kids read or watch on tv. :mad: Not with you on that one. It comes of course from Computer Science, and basically means that you can’t get quality results if your input data is invalid. And there’d be a lot of folks who’d think that does apply to a person and what TV and other cultural artefacts they consume. > [@Musicat](#): > > “No matter what happens, don’t forget God loves you.” “I forget, Mum: what was it God does to me, again? Hates? Ignores? Condescends to?” ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/112 "2012-05-01T17:49:02Z")
> [@Cubsfan](#): > > It is what it is. I actually like that one. It is the polite way of saying “The situation at hand isn’t changing regardless of what caused it so shut the fuck up and stop complaining about it”. Yeah I like that one too. A similar expression I use is “such is life.” It’s a polite way of saying “Deal with it.” Which is something some people really need to hear. There’s really no point in complaining about things that can’t be changed. While most people do this to some degree, some people are more prone to it than others, and it can be quite annoying to have to constantly listen to crap like that. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/113 "2012-05-02T00:31:27Z")
> [@phxjcc](#): > > \ > At work… > “I don’t find my job rewarding.” > Really? Too bad. You were hired to work. You work, we pay you; conversely you don’t work, we will fire you. You want self fulfillment, great–but you are here to work. Go study Maslow’s hierarchy. > > Personal… > “Love conquers all”/“love is the most important thing” > No. It does/is not. > Water, food, warmth, shelter, safety, clothing you need to survive. > > Hollywood/the media wants you to believe that self actualization is the most important thing in life. They are wrong. Send them to a relocation camp in southern Sudan for a year without resources, then ask them again. > \ You must be a hoot at parties. ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-quotations-you-hate-to-hear/619241/114 "2012-05-02T02:10:34Z")
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