A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. Stanley Baldwin
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. Thornton Wilder
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Aldous Huxley
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. Adlai Stevenson
Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. Margaret Thatcher
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Norman Douglas
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are ‘not for an age, but for all time’, has his reward in being unreadable in all ages. George Bernard Shaw