Exaggeration Quotations

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

A work of art is an exaggeration.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

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.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Everybody exaggerates a little bit.

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

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.

Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.