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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. — H.L. Mencken

'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass.
Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence. — Nenia Campbell

Trusting God is a lifestyle. David — Wendy Pope

Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude? — Christopher Fry

One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. — Oliver Goldsmith

Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators. — Andrew Solomon

It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity. — Ruth Benedict

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible. — Novalis

Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos. — Mary Roach

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs. — John Brunner

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth. — Ambrose Bierce

Everything is true at once. Life is a contradiction. We take in every lesson. We find what works. — Jandy Nelson

Never give up, and never give in. — Hal Newhouser

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it. — Theo De Raadt

Applause: the echo of a platitude. — Marty Rubin

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. — Edward Abbey

Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. — Karl Marx

Platitudes or otherwise, there were no words to ease the agony of living. — Catherine Cookson

The aphorism: a platitude that swerves, or slides all the way around. — Mason Cooley

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. — Don Marquis

You are not your story.
They are not your story about them.
The world is not your story about the world. — Adyashanti

If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well. — George Friedman

My wife is loyal...to my wallet. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they're asking for trouble. — Haruki Murakami

You mere device," he gnarled. "You platitude! Your Gollux ex machina! — James Thurber

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude ... — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life. — Miriam Toews

If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed. — Damian Kulash

Applause, n. The echo of a platitude. — Ambrose Bierce

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. — Stanley Baldwin

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. — Oscar Wilde

If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

Because "Platitude" was a language everyone spoke — Julie Anne Long

There's a lot of your family in tonight. — Prince Philip