If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.
Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
To exaggerate is to weaken.
I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.
Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.
I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate.
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility