Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. – Jonathan Swift Category: Exaggeration
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. – Honore de Balzac Category: Exaggeration
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. – Walt Disney Category: Exaggeration
We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature. – Voltaire Category: Nature
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. – James Russell Lowell Category: Failure