Quotes of Overstatement - somelinesforyou

“ Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ We aim above the mark to hit the mark. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. ”

- Unknown

“ If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. ”

- Talmud

“ Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. ”

- Unknown

“ Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything? except his own mistakes. ”

- Unknown

“ All news is an exaggeration of life. ”

- Daniel Schorr

“ Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. ”

- Eliza Cook

“ Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. ”

- Robert Brault

“ To a small man every greater is an exaggeration. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. ”

- Voltaire

“ To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. ”

- John Irving

“ The report of my death was an exaggeration. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes. ”

- John Legend

“ I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place. ”

- Debbie Peterson

“ It is probably no exaggeration to say that she is Britain's preeminent living novelist. ”

- William Boyd

“ In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ 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's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown. ”

- John Hart

“ There is no one who does not exaggerate! ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock. ”

- Viktor Korchnoi

“ Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness. ”

- Voltaire

“ I never exaggerate. I just remember big. ”

- Chi Chi Rodriguez

“ Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else. ”

- George Bernard Shaw
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