Sentence examples for trite saying from inspiring English sources

It's a bit of a trite saying, attributed to coaches, motivational speakers and fortune cookie authors (by the way, whose idea was it for fortune cookies to replace predictions with treacly aphorisms from the "Successories" reject pile?).

I know plenty of people who have either forgiven or chosen to ignore the unforgivable, unignorable faults of miscellaneous family members because "blood is thicker than water," "family comes first," and "insert third additional trite saying here".

The trite saying is, it's never the right time, until it's too late.

("Not art", said Anish Kapoor this year; "trite", said Turner prize-winner Mark Leckey).

"In the past Christian music has been very trite," said Stephen Christian, the singer in Anberlin.

"It sounds trite," said John, a quiet 40-year-old, "but you've done something good for the day".

"I thought it was very slick, very funny, but, to be honest, a little bit trite," says Shula Eriksson.

7. 'Happy Xmas (War Is Over)', John Lennon, 1971 (US), 1972 (UK) "An unbeatable combination of sanctimonious, whiny, mawkish and trite," says Lynsey Hopkins.

"What I hear from students from all backgrounds is they want to make things better, they want to make the world better, even if that sounds trite," said Osama Abi-Mershed, director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.

"I don't want to be trite by saying I've just begun to fight," Mr. Reid told reporters, "but I'm still not tired".

"It is just not good enough to give a trite phrase saying we will learn lessons if you don't learn the lessons and if you don't make sure on a regular basis that the lessons have filtered down to your officers.