A platitude or cliché.
A commonplace book.
Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring.
A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics.
To make a commonplace book.
To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
A drama exemplifying a proverb.
A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.
A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
To name in, or as, a proverb.
To write or utter proverbs.
To provide with a proverb.