We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“More often than not, the thing we fear is less than half the size of the fear it creates.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said,… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. ~ Josh Billings” — Mara Jacobs Copy Share Image
In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like… — Moby Copy Share Image
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering,… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to… — Lawrence Beesley Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I don't go and study other folks. I come from where I came from, as a kid, in the little black church… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
“But the stories you told yourself-- which you pretended to recall as if they'd happened every afternoon of an infinite summer-- were… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,. — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
