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
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Don Marquis
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