To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. – Henry David Thoreau

Some folks never exaggerate — they just remember big. – Author Unknown

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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