We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“With a touch of exaggeration, we can say that in Africa—in the beginning is not the Word, but the chameleon.” — Eva Žilková Copy Share Image
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I was never really an impressionist. If there was somebody within my range, maybe I could work on it and do a… — Kevin Nealon 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
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
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 is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy -… — John Denham Copy Share Image
I've always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren't moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think it would be over-exaggeration to think that there are millions of viruses ready to jump on us and bring us… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia… — Vladimir Putin 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
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 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
If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is no tongue that flatters like a lover's; and yet, in the exaggeration of his feelings, flattery seems to him commonplace.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech… — George Will Copy Share Image
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family… — John Irving Copy Share Image
American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
"Entourage" is a staple LA-based show and people say it's pretty real and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I know this might sound like an exaggeration, but Helio Gracie was to Jiu Jitsu what Albert Einstein was to physics. — Rickson Gracie Copy Share Image
Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they?… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of Americas foreign policy goals in the Middle… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration — Bill Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
It's not an exaggeration to say that Texas gets a lot more out of being part of the United States than the… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
