Common Sayings Quotes

I've heard, 'May the Force be with you' about as many times as, 'Hey, how you doing?'

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

I overuse words. My kids catch me saying stuff. They're like, 'Hey, you say that all the time.' 'Boom' is one of those things.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

I feel like the older I get, the more I start to think about life in general. All the clichés that people tell you, the ones that you hear over and over and over again, there's a reason they're cliché, there's a reason you hear them over and over again, because it's all true. As much as you don't wanna hear it, it's true. You'll find out later on, like "Man, they're all right."

The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.