The report of my death was an exaggeration.
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
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.
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. . . . We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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.
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.
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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.
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
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.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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.
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
