Quotations About Exaggeration

There is no one who does not exaggerate.  In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. 
French Proverb
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures.  It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.  
Walt Disney
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike.  We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.  
Honore de Balzac
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. 
Bob Edwards
'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.  
Eliza Cook
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. 
Nicolas Chamfort
Man is inclined to exaggerate almost everything - except his own mistakes.  
Author Unknown
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.  
Kahlil Gibran
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.  
Author Unknown
If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.  
The Talmud
Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.  
Proverb

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