I'll go with: "If you set your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."

 

What common saying do you believe to be absurd?

"Cheaters never prosper."

 

I know some very prosperous cheaters.

Eating hotdogs out of the package is wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L7lZsBuNXk&spfreload=10

"Knowing my luck..."

 

People preface many sentences this way. It speaks more to our general pessimistic outlook on things, but there is no way every person on earth has the unlucky cache to say the aforementioned as much as they do.

"I could care less about..."

 

Well, that means you care about it a little bit.

"If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying"

'Needless to say...'

then why say it?

I'll go with: "If you set your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."

 

What common saying do you believe to be absurd?

 

#1 on the list if taking literally.

"It is what it is."

 

Nope, it doesn't have to be, not if you/we don't accept it.

I'll go with: "If you set your mind to it, you can accomplish anything."

 

What common saying do you believe to be absurd?

 

Worked out for George McFly quite well. :jump:

"It is what it is."

 

Nope, it doesn't have to be, not if you/we don't accept it.

 

How is that one absurd? It's true.

"Ignorance is Bliss"- no thats just something someone says to make themselves feel better about not knowing something.

How is that one absurd? It's true.

 

But most of the time it doesn't need to be that way. Irks me more than anything, I guess, if it is not in itself absurd.

 

Example: Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton is an awful choice, but I guess it is what it is.

But most of the time it doesn't need to be that way. Irks me more than anything' date=' I guess, if it is not in itself absurd. Example: Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton is an awful choice, but I guess it is what it is.[/quote']

 

I'm saying that by definition the statement is true.