Popular sayings that don't make any sense.

But what good is having it if you can't eat it?

Yeah, the money/happiness saying is very stupid
Call me shallow, but having the bills paid up to date and some walking around money makes me very happy

It should be "money can buy happiness... depending on who you are."

Sarah Silverman said, "When life gives you AIDS, make lemonAIDS"

Dudley Moore said " ...money can't buy you happiness but it buys you a better class of misery."

I like the example you have about not judging book by its cover. You have to do that or else you'd be reading every book you come across.

That's just bad grammar. I also hate when people put "should of" instead of "should have".

My response is usually: "so you think Hitler was a great guy?" and watch their faces drop.

Having a funeral services background, I encountered this saying frequently. A better and more accurate [less archiac] expression would be, "Do not attack those who cannot defend themselves."

Longer version:

For those deserving of ridicule for doing horrible things, who refused to change their ways for the better, their name should be remembered negatively, synonymous with their infamous and unforgiving actions. Take the example given above, Adolf Hitler. He attacked those who could not defend themselves. *[Though people fought back bravely, resisting his tyranny, the odds were not in their favor, their bold efforts in the face of insurmountable adversity, never giving up in spite of the circumstances surrounding them]

Typically, after a person dies, over time all that is left of them is a memory until they are all but forgotten unless their name is kept alive for something they did, either incredibly good or monstrously bad. Should there be a wise person being slandered beyond the grave with no family or friends to uphold their honor, it would be an injustice to their legacy.

We will all be dead and gone at some point, it's just a matter of giving respect where it's due so that, by social extension, future generations will treat us with the same dignity.

All this said, I do share your sentiment, only wishing to elaborate on it. Your idea is clever and thought-provoking. My comment about all of us being dead and long forgotten is not meant to be a bummer, not if we look at humanity as a whole - an organic consciousness where all our actions affect each other in one form or another, all in it together.

~~/o/

That pneumonia I had certainly didn't make me any stronger.