There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
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.
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Exaggeration is a branch of lying.
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.
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.
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 report of my death was an exaggeration.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
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.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. . . . We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
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.
