Exaggeration Quotes
185 quotes by 160 authors
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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
— Josh Billings
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It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
— George H. W. Bush
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All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or…
— Milan Kundera
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a…
— Willa Cather
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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
— Jack Kornfield
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Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The report of my death was an exaggeration.
— Mark Twain
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In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the…
— Eric Temple Bell
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Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the…
— Walther Bothe
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It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in…
— Joseph Murray
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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of…
— Richard Lindzen
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If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment…
— Marilyn Waring
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In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles,…
— Stephen Leacock
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The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the…
— Leon Trotsky
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Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.
— Karol Mikuli
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Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
— Drew Carey
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor…
— Wendie Malick
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It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
— Arianna Huffington
Who Wrote These Exaggeration Quotes
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