Sayings and quotes are popular ways to get your work, both written and verbal noticed. Most people like sayings because they understand the meaning without having to interpret the information.
However professional bloggers especially micro-bloggers like sayings, because they can increase interest in their work. This is particularly important in generating traffic since interest increases the liklihood of comments.
Comments on your post increase the rankings by pushing more traffic to your posts. How does this work? Sayings, wise or notable are recognised, catching interest and when a comment is added the interest may repeated by being notified to other users again depending on the platform.
Facebook is a good example of asocial networking platform which operates in this way. If you update your status directly or via an application such as Twitter then your update plus any comments are notified to your friends.
This in turn increases your exposure and helps generate more traffic.
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Sayings, Wise or Whistful
Sayings wise or brought in by their common use are usually based on something useful in certain circumstances. It can be amusing to use a saying out of context to make it into an amusing anecdote.
Similarly quotes taken from, for example; speeches, can be use in the same way as sayings and with perpetual use can become sayings as well.
Unfortunately with excessive use a once amusing saying viewed originally as wise can metamorphosise into a cliche.
What is it that makes an amusing anecdote into a cliche, well it’s commonality is really the deciding factor. When you start a saying which you believe could be amusing in a social context, bit then find everyone joins in as they know exactly what you are saying then you are in the realms of a cliche.
The avoidance of cliches seems to be appropriate when one is looking to make a good impression. However when they are appropriate they are still used as a wise saying.