Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive… We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

— Victor Hugo

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

— Baltasar Gracian

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

— Mark Twain

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

— Henry David Thoreau

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

— Josh Billings

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

— Eric Hoffer

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious;…

— Willa Cather

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that…

— Victor Hugo

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

— George Eliot

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset