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Quotations about Exaggeration
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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
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818–1885), quoted in H. Montague, Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings, 1913
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 (1771–1852), quoted in Day's Collacon, 1884
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
The child trained in exaggeration generally graduates into an adult liar. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1904, George Horace Lorimer, editor
'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
Stop telling such outlandish tales.
Stop turning minnows into whales.
~Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, 1937
It is impossible to exaggerate trifles without belitting great things. ~Charles Searle, Look Here!, 1885
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, The World's Laconics, 1853
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
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
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, 1896
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
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation? ~Samuel Johnson
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