Quotes by Exaggeration Is 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 exaggeration-isislamicmilitary It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. Arianna Huffington exaggeration-ismiddleclass 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 everyday-thingsexaggeration-isaverage Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste. Baltasar Gracian exaggeration-isjudgmenttaste Exaggeration is a branch of lying. Baltasar Gracian exaggeration-isbrancheslying Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor. Barbara Mertz exaggeration-isformhumor It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world. Daniel J. Boorstin exaggeration-isgreatnessimagination 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 exaggeration-isstepsworld Exaggeration is my only reality. Diana Vreeland exaggerationexaggeration-isreality Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with. Drew Carey exaggeration-iscomedybigs Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. Eric Hoffer exaggeration-isliteraturethinking 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 exaggeration-isgovernmentthinking There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side. George Eliot exaggeration-isdisappointmentmemories Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. Hosea Ballou exaggeration-isrelationblood We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. Honore de Balzac bad-gradesexaggeration-isliterature To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. Henry David Thoreau small-manexaggeration-ismen I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. Jack Benny exaggeration-isbusinesswant The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing. J. D. Salinger exaggeration-iswallbook 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 exaggeration-isforcethinking 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 exaggeration-islaughterlying12»
