Reply
Wed 14 Mar, 2012 03:46 pm
One of my recent obsessions (music wise) is one of the Punch Brother's songs titled, New York City, from their latest album, Who's Feeling Young Now. The lyrics have been stuck in my head throughout the week.
A few of the lines are as follows:
My old man says, "If your good, the world gives you what you ask for."
As I was singing the chorus to myself and this line walking home from the subway station, I thought this must be what a platitude is. Then I had to check online on my phone to see exactly what a platitude was and its definition. Clearly I was chuffed with myself when I found out I used the $20 word with its correct definition and usage.
Do you have any favorite platitudes that you fondly remember being quoted to you or you use yourself? Are they necessarily bad things (useless, shallow bits of optimism that really don't mean anything) to believe in and spout out on a regular basis?
My mother used to say "You made your own bed, now lay in it.'
I have to say that never helped me in life and I don't believe in that at all.
@tsarstepan,
The one that comes to mind first is "cheaters never prosper".
Hah.
@ossobuco,
" The only thing to fear is fear itself"
What??? I've always thought this was just plain stupid.
"What cannot be cured must be endured."
@contrex,
As far as I know there is only one species of platitude and that is the Duck Billed Platitude
@farmerman,
Ahh, the duck billed platypus. Nature had to do something with it's leftovers.
@eurocelticyankee,
On behalf of the platypuses of the world, they would claim that it is their condition that is the most evolved and the rest of us merely haven't figured out how to achieve all of the accouterments they have.
Joe(I am a bit jealous)Nation
Now----back to the platitudes.
@tsarstepan,
Got to love "c'est la vie" - covers pretty much any situation in life that's even slightly less than ideal, all the while providing absolutely no help nor insight to fixing it
"In the end, everyone gets what they deserve."
(Bullshit.)
@Eva,
Well, everyone does get their fair share of ice. The rich get it in the summer; the poor get their's in the winter - Bat Masterson said that.
@tsarstepan,
"If it doesn't kill you it'll maker you stronger"
Yeah?
Sounds like masochism to me.
(obviously that's not my favourite, tsar. Let me think on it! )
@msolga,
Anyone who hurts me, and doesn't kill me has made a terrible blunder.
I just love misquoting Friedrich Nietzsche.
@OmSigDAVID,
I like quoting Heinlein, too.
@roger,
roger wrote:I like quoting Heinlein, too.
He was a great guy;
very engaging writer, too!
I coud not put his work down.
David
Whatever 's worth doing
is worth doing WELL,
'cause it might be IMPORTANT.
U never can tell.
So no matter how little it seems at the start,
if u DO it, then do it, with ALL of your HEART!
@msolga,
that always pissed me off. If I'm crippled by an accident I highly doubt I'm coming out stronger than before.
Stumble It!
Tweet This
Bookmark on Delicious
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace