Some folks never exaggerate — they just remember big. – Author Unknown
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil 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
Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything — except his own mistakes. – Author Unknown
To exaggerate is to weaken. – Jean François de La Harpe, Melanie, 1770
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
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
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. – Eliza Cook
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
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
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
