What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue?
Such as "money can't buy happiness" or "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Generally a false adage or something like that. All I could think of was "fallacious bumper sticker" which just sounds stupid.
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A proverb.
Because your examples are actual proverbs, that might be considered true or not, depending on who says it when.
I dunno. Something being a proverb doesn't make it inherently false, which is what we're trying to define I guess
The examples OP provided are not inherently false because they are proverbs.