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NOTE:  Some of the quotes on this page were submitted to me by visitors, and not all have been verified for original source or wording. I'm working hard to confirm everything, but in the meantime please be aware of the possibility for errors.  —ღ Terri, March 2021


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 merely a flight of poetic fancy. ~L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island, 1915


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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