Examples Of Trite Quotes & Sayings

I am down with the latest trends. And everyone knows, the thing on the streets is vampires. So I have been biting people on the neck. — Stephen Colbert

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. — Henry Fielding

I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions. — Joan Blades

The shrimp's protein and ours are not exactly the same, but they're so
similar that if you turned up in court and tried to convince a judge that your
version was not a badly concealed plagiarism, you'd be very unlikely to win.
In fact, you'd be a laughing stock, for rhodopsin is not restricted to vent shrimp
and humans but is omnipresent throughout the animal kingdom.... Trying to persuade a judge that your rhodopsin is not plagiarised
would be like trying to clajm that your television set is fundamentally different
from everyone else's, just because it's bigger or has a flat screen. — Nick Lane

PRINT the ticket, take the ride! — Chairman Kingmaker

God can only be comprehended as Love. — Gustav Mahler

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. — Henry Fielding

I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not. — Michel Gondry

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. — Ambrose Bierce

It was 2:49 in the morning. I had never, in my entire life, felt less tired. — John Green

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. — Thornton Wilder

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration. — Steve Lacy

Violence is fun, man. — Quentin Tarantino

Good moral character is the first essential in a man. — George Washington