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Platitude: a banal or stale remark; a commonplace or trite remark or idea, especially one uttered as if it were original or momentous.



Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It



The historian and the detective have much in common. ~Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences



Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961



Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? ~J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. ~Don Sutton



Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does. ~Madge Micheels-Cyrus



There's something beautifully soothing about a fact - even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means. ~Daniel J. Boorstin



Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel



The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. ~E.M. Cioran



Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices. ~Thomas Fuller



My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ~Henry Youngman



An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job. ~Author Unknown



Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. ~Mother Teresa



A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation. ~Andrew Grove



All diseases run into one, old age. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Windows is just DOS in drag. ~Author Unknown



History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Fate



A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are. ~William Ellery Channing



The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter