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| Some folks never exaggerate – they just remember big. ~ Attributed to both Audrey Snead and Chi Chi Rodriguez |
| An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. ~ Kahlil Gibran |
| Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. ~ Author Unknown |
| If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. ~ The Talmud |
| Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ~ Proverb |
| There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can’t tell the truth without lying. ~ Josh Billings |
| Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything – except his own mistakes. ~ Author Unknown |
| To exaggerate is to weaken. ~ Jean François de La Harpe, |
| Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ~ Hosea Ballou |
| By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration. ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset |
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| All news is an exaggeration of life. ~ Daniel Schorr |
| All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ~ Nicolas Chamfort |
| There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. ~ William Alger |
| Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. ~ Bob Edwards |
| ‘Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. ~ Eliza Cook |
| There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are always on the good side. ~ George Eliot |
| What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~ French Proverb |
| We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ~ Honore de Balzac |
| Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. ~ Tryon Edwards |
We overstate the ills of life, and take
Imagination… down our earth to rake…
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. ~ Willa Sibert Cather |
| Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. ~ Walt Disney |
| To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. ~ Henry David Thoreau |
| It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. ~ Mark Twain |
| Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. ~ Voltaire |
| We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |