One that comes to mind for me: "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is not always true. Maybe even only half the time! Are there any phrases you tend to hear and shake your head at?
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It's true, happiness can't be bought. However, what money can buy is the removal of certain obstacles to that happiness.
This one is only true after a certain point which depends on the cost of living where you live. Money absolutely buys happiness up to a point.
money can't buy happiness, but it can create the environment and conditions in which you can more easily become happy.
It fundamentally can't. Humanity has seen plenty of miserable rich folks to know the innate truth of that.
Over here in Brazil, I guess because we're a third world country that is more accustomed to poverty than the anglosphere/yurop, we have a variant of this phrase:
"Money can't buy you happiness -- But the lack of it will take your happiness away"
It's true that you can be extremely rich and still fucking depressed.
But if you can't afford rent, and/or are working by day to pay for a small meal at night, and/or are getting sick and just tanking it because actual care is outside your paygrade -- You are guaranteed to be miserable.
I agree to some extent. I would say money is exchanged time, you earn it by using your time and use it to have more time. You can trade your time (money) for things you dislike to do or will help you to faster achieve what you actually want to do so you can use your time on things you like which makes you happy. But there are things you can't trade with money and you have to actually use your own time instead of your earned time.