The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
A cliche is everything you've ever heard of.
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide to action.
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.
The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.
There are some very general ideas that people can keep in mind; they're kind of truisms. It's only worth mentioning them because they're always denied.
Cliches are cliches because they are true.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.
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.
