Quotes About Exaggeration

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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.

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick." Until it broke.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.

What's the difference between a hockey mom and a mass turkey-murdering machine? Looks like about 15 feet.

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

The body learns through exaggeration and contrast

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

Some folks never exaggerate-they just remember big.

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.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Absolutes do not exist in this universe. If you try to force your experiences into absolute categories, you will be constantly depressed because your perceptions will not conform to reality. You will set yourself up for discrediting yourself endlessly because whatever you do will never measure up to your exaggerated expectations. The technical name for this type of perceptual error is "dichotomous thinking." You see everything as black or white—shades of gray do not exist.

If 'national character' can really be said to exist, it can only be asa. result of such schismogenetic processes: English people trying to become as little as possible like French, French people as little like Germans, and so on. if nothing else, they will all definitely exaggerate their differences in arguing with one another.