Aphorisms, proverbs and sayings which, on first glance, feel profound, but on second thought aren't.

Turkish proverb: Sikinde peynir görmüş, götünde mandıra açiyor! Meaning: Your dreams your capabilities.

LITERAL translation: "You find cheese on your dick and think you can open a cheese factory in your ass."

your dreams EXCEED your capabilities

"It ain't over until the fat lady sings."

Coach Dick Motta coined this saying at a press conference during an NBA finals in the late 1970s, after which it was gleefully quoted and requoted aphoristically by every sports commentator in the USA for decades.

really, the saying's that new? dang!

After a brief jaunt over to wikipedia:

Motta is sometimes erroneously credited with coining the celebrated phrase: The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.[1] In fact, the phrase was a witticism originated by San Antonio sportswriter and television sportscaster Dan Cook.[2]

During a KENS-TV broadcast of the 1978 NBA Eastern Conference semi-finals between the Washington Bullets and the San Antonio Spurs, Cook used the phrase in an attempt to encourage Spurs fans...

So, I was wrong about Motta, but yes: 1978.

I thought it was Bugs Bunny who coined it.

"They're playing checkers but I'm playing chess"

It's actually really hard to conceive of what this game would turn out like and I'm not convinced chess would win

"A penny saved is a penny earned."

Um, no. If I buy a $1,000 thing on sale for $500, I don't have 500 more dollars. I have 500 fewer dollars.

And don't tell me I now have the value of the thing, or could sell the thing. First of all the price was pretty arbitrary to begin with (so was the discount). Secondly resale value for most things is close to nonexistent, and in any case would normally be dramatically less than the purchase price.