Quotes on exaggeration
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
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José Ortega Gasset Quotes
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
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Tryon Edwards Quotes
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
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Honore de Balzac Quotes
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
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William Alger Quotes
There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.
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Josh Billings Quotes
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
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Eliza Cook Quotes
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
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Bob Edwards Quotes
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
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French Proverb Quotes
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.
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Voltaire Quotes
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
All news is an exaggeration of life.
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Daniel Schorr Quotes