Quotes About Exaggeration

Some people make spectacles of themselves with a couple of glasses.

I'm not much of a drinker. It only takes me one drink to get drunk . . . my fourth.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

You encourage a comic man too much, and he gets silly.

Apparently, I am a bit of an exaggerator when I tell stories. But I don't call them lies; I say they are better, funnier truths.

Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.

I'm the biggest hypochondriac you've ever seen in your life. When I get real stressed out, every little ache and pain I have is something major. If I've got a headache, it's a brain tumor; if I've got a chest pain, it's a heart attack.

When I'm doing an exaggerated character, I hope it's clear I don't think this is how women do, or should, act. There's aspects of Looney Tunes in drag. But there's something poignant about a man dressed as a woman, talking about gender. It can make you realize how similar the genders really are.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

Everybody wants a sensational story.

Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already - it's ridiculous.

You know, I've seen 'Beavis and Butthead,' and I thought it was just some warped fictional exaggeration of male immaturity, but I can see now that the show is based on you.

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?

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

the benefits promised in the book seem grossly overstated.

They sounded like those awful people on info-holograms. It dices, it slices! But wait! There's more!

See, every hotel in Las Vegas has a gimmick, and the biggest gimmick of all is the Stratosphere Tower, which claims to have 113 floors, although I think they're measuring floors in Las-Vegas-inches, which stretch and contract to fit whatever lie you're trying to sell.

what makes it funny to people is that it's a gross distortion of something very familiar. For