Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Quotes from Jesting Pilate — Aldous Huxley
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.