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Exaggeration is my only reality. -- Diana Vreeland
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. -- Khalil Gibran
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with. -- Drew Carey
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. -- Walt Disney
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 the limits of delight. -- Milan Kundera
Exaggeration is a branch of lying. -- Baltasar Gracian
Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. -- Voltaire
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor. -- Barbara Mertz
Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie. -- Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. -- Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. -- Baltasar Gracian
You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists. -- Demetri Martin
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Exaggeration can lend action scenes more force, but I like to stick to more realistic figures: They help keep the cool in the action scenes, although they may be not as forceful as the exaggerated ones. -- Masashi Kishimoto
To exaggerate is to weaken. -- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
All news is an exaggeration of life. -- Daniel Schorr
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager. -- Clara Hughes
There is no one who does not exaggerate! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The report of my death was an exaggeration. -- Mark Twain
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. -- William Rounseville Alger
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. -- Mark Twain
Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth. -- Stan Laurel
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. -- Arianna Huffington
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another. -- George H. W. Bush
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage. -- Steven Wright
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. -- Robert Plant
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. -- Josh Billings
Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. -- Steve Toltz
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration -- Bill Sienkiewicz
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. -- Eric Hoffer
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
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. -- Alfred Nobel
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research. -- Virginia Foxx
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. -- Tryon Edwards
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. -- Robin Marantz Henig
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things. -- Aries Spears
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. -- Walter Bagehot
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well. -- Edmund Muskie
It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America's foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region. -- Reza Aslan
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. -- Bo Bennett
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression. -- Ahmed Yassin
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have -- Bo
I have never knowingly, I swear to God, written satire. The word connotes exaggeration of the foibles of mankind. To me, mankind just has foibles. You don't have to push it! -- Tom Wolfe
The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes. -- Timothy Noah
Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has not seen nor ear heard, nor hath it ever entered into the heart of men to conceive Boston ever to arrive at. -- Peter Oliver
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. -- Lafcadio Hearn
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. -- Paul Davies
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. -- Mark Lloyd
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required. -- Victor Hugo
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles. -- Joseph Conrad
The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising truemasculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't been raised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough. -- Frank Pittman
Love songs are nothing without exaggeration. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The body learns through exaggeration and contrast -- Wendy Palmer
A work of art is an exaggeration. -- Andre Gide
Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth. -- Phil Heath
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait. -- Edith Hamilton
The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration -- Helmut Schmid
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. -- Henry David Thoreau
I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart. -- Stephenie Meyer
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea. -- Andre Gide
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality. -- Barbara Tuchman
I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat]. -- John F. Kerry
Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies. -- Craig Ferguson
Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration. -- Jane Siberry
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds. -- Honore de Balzac
It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown. -- John Hart
To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible. -- John Stott
It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government. -- Margaret Thatcher
Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration. -- Marco Rubio
There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. -- Eugene Ionesco
I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it. -- Mark Twain
Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease. -- Ayn Rand
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration. -- Steve Toltz
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality." -- Gillo Dorfles
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life. -- Daniel Alarcon
I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration. -- J. Michael Straczynski
With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land. -- Satish Kumar
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. -- Chris Cleave
It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down. -- Robert Paul Wolff
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement. -- Walter J. Phillips
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration. -- Mark Twain
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. -- Wolfgang Kohler
I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration. -- David Sedaris
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. -- Stephen Covey
Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right. -- Zhuangzi
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? -- Jack Kornfield
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
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you. -- Daniel Kahneman
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. -- Maurice Allais
It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer. -- Christian de Duve
Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth. -- Pauly Shore
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ. -- Moby
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. -- Oscar Wilde
Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced. -- John Flanagan
It's only a slight exaggeration to say we haven't progressed much beyond the invention of agriculture when it comes to our view of the natural world. -- Annalee Newitz
Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings. -- Georg Ebers
An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings. -- Don Rickles
You might think that's an exaggeration but believe me, if you leave twin two-year-olds alone in your living room, at some point a cow will be airborne. -- Ray Romano
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it. -- Lawrence Block
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus? -- John Clayton
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. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
It would be an exaggeration to say Iâ??m not afraid of death, but Iâ??m not afraid of what comes after, because Iâ??m not a believer. -- Christian de Duve
One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is. -- Carl Jung
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 coarse man, vulgar. -- Willa Cather
Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life. -- Al Gore
We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie! -- Jerry Brown
It would be possible to say without exaggeration that the miners' leaders were the stupidest men in England if we had not frequent occasion to meet the owners. -- Sam Smith
We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands. -- Buck Rodgers
I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God. -- Blaise Pascal

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