Quote: He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment. Author: Ivern Ball
Quote: Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Author: Hosea Ballou 1771-1852, American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''
Quote: We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Author: Honore De Balzac 1799-1850, French Novelist
Quote: 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. Author: Jack Benny 1894-1974, American Comedian
Quote: There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: 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. Author: Daniel J. Boorstin 1914-, American Historian
Quote: 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. Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
Quote: There is no one who does not exaggerate! Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: 'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: Victor Hugo 1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: We always weaken everything we exaggerate. Author: La Harpe
Quote: Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: I never exaggerate. I just remember big. Author: Chi Chi Rodriguez 1935-, Golfer born in Puerto Rico
Quote: Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist
Quote: Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. Author: Voltaire 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer