30 Wise Old Sayings That Have Totally Lost Their Meaning In The Contemporary World, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group

Money will buy me the comfort to do the things that make me happy...so yes, it does buy happiness.

Money can buy puppies. Puppies=happiness.

Studies have been done, and to an extent it does, as in having enough money for needs, for security in meeting future needs, and for some small luxuries (annual vacation, fund a hobby or 2, afford to entertain friends, that sort of thing) it absolutely does. After the needs, security and small luxuries threshold has been met, additional money no longer adds to happiness levels, you gotta pursue happiness in other ways.

Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can alleviate a lot of unhappiness.

Money can buy stress-relief, and that's pretty damn close to happiness.

At my age I'm much more likely to find that I've forgotten what I'm looking for.

George Carlin did a bit on this about 50 years ago

I've always said this!

...that's what the saying is though. It's sarcasm.

Yes. Thank you Ted, that was indeed the point.

Wait I never heard this one. It was always phrased as "Why do bad things always happen to good people?"

I agree. A crock of sh*t. My entire life nothing good ever happened to me.

This is absolute bs.

Go ahead and tell Anne Frank that. I'll wait.

Total BS. Random horrible sh*t can happen to anyone.

When I was quite young, my mother was telling my younger brother and me about stranger danger. She warned my brother, who was quite a cutie at the time, about a long list of things to watch out for. Then she turned to me and said "Dear, your face will be your chaperone." I wasn't offended at all - until nine years later, when I fould out what "chaperone" meant.

As a woman who grew up not so attractive, I can tell you that looks definitely matter. The way people treat you is very different when you are not attractive to them. I can't speak for guys but I think unattractive people can sometimes be deemed 'smarter' because if you aren't attractive you must be a *geek* or something to make up for that. A lot of the time, our only worth is as being attractive and if you aren't then you can't be average so you have to be smart. I think ugly guys can sometimes have it easier if they're funny. Women will put looks aside if you make them laugh. Or if you're rich. Some types of women only care about money so they'll go with some ugly disaster of a man if he has money. But it doesn't generally go both ways or, at least, it's rare. There's no trade-off like being funny for a woman. At this point, man or woman, I think a lot of people are overlooking ugly if it just means not getting crazy!

Statistically speaking attractive people are more successful. It's hard to accept it for an ugly guy like me, but society is really shallow.

Tinder. Just tinder !

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Well, many people in each generation too. Don't just blame the Boomers and the others before them.

*plants the Latin roots with the hydrangeas*

Disclaimer: must have an IQ higher than a turnip for this to apply.

Well I must say that as an aging baby boomer I believe u are absolutely correct! And don’t get me started on all the old white men in our country who seem to rule the roost! Time for some huge change in America!

There really needs to be an age limit. Once you reach a certain age you can no longer run for office. I mean you have to be at least, what 35 to run for President (US)? There should be a cut off age too.

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The saying is "the love of money is the root of all evil" meaning greed. Greed is the root of all evil, not money itself.

Lack of money is the root of all evil. (Or a heck of a lot of it.)

What about Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts both make a lot of money but they aren't bad at all.

Money or loving it isn't the issue. Loving having more than someone else, loving being better off and therefore "better" is the issue, and that is evil to its core. Love of exploitation, love of taking more than your fair share knowing that it will, by its very nature, mean someone will get less than their share, that is the root of all evil

Did not know that. Thanks.

My hubby works in the financial world and I can tell you 1000% that cheating is how the top people in this world got to where they are!

I think it makes perfect sense to assume that this expression was originated by a cheater.

I believe this is more a reference to that if you cheated you may have grabbed the title; but you would know you were a fraud, and this would inherently affect your self esteem. We are all aware of the façade passing as reality in this society. The truest children's tale is The Emperor Has No Clothes!

Agree wholeheartedly. Very few people actually get successful without cheating their way to it. I know that sounds cynical but it's simply true. That's why I don't understand people who worship these politicians. I don't care, trump, clinton, obama, biden, bush....it doesn't matter. You can't get to that level of government without cheating or buying your way into it. They're all corrupt and you look at anyone who's rich and they're either finding loopholes in the tax system, paying people less, etc. to manage to do it. So stop fetishizing celebrities and politicians as if they care about you or really care what you think of them- they don't. And politicians will tell you any lie they think will get your vote. If the 70% of the country came out as gay, tomorrow they'd all be in the pride parade.

I think it was from a movie "it you cheat and get caught, you after just another dumbass. If you cheat and don't get caught, you are prepared for the world"

"You mean I have a choice? Great! See ya."

Welcome to the club.

...then you're showing how perfectly relevant the phrase is

The introvert in me feels this comment.