Branches Quote by Baltasar Gracian Download Open image “Exaggeration is a branch of lying.” — Baltasar Gracian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Branches Exaggeration Exaggeration is Inspirational Lying
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.” — Rodney Ulyate Copy Share Image
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm an intentional liar, but I'm a little bit of an exaggerator sometimes. If I'm exaggerating, and the journalist exaggerates on… — Autre Ne Veut Copy Share Image
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.” — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In our system of government, the judicial and legislative branches have different roles. Judges are not politicians. Judges must decide cases, not champion causes.… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. — Byron White Copy Share Image
Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image