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Quotes About Exaggeration

Los Pilotos tienen un concepto muy exagerado de su propia importancia, pensó D'mahl. ¿Y en qué los convierte eso? - Tres... dos... uno... En seres humanos.
~ Norman Spinrad
[To Dr. Johnson:] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Each side, hypocritical enough to pretend that it lives up to its own hype, is equally insistent that the other side's worst is truly all that it is. American political advertising is sinking slowly toward a level worthy of Soviet propaganda.
~ Os Guinness
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.
~ Osamu Dazai
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles.
~ Osamu Dazai
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in this world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people.
~ Osamu Dazai
Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard.
~ Ovid
Rumor exaggerates.
~ Patricia Briggs
It was about the hysteria, the mythmaking, and the misunderstanding that had twisted
~ Unknown
I'm so hungry I could eat a farmer's arse t'rough a tennis racquet.
~ Unknown
Mice lie and monkeys exaggerate," says University of Pennsylvania vaccine researcher David Weiner.
~ Paul A. Offit
That's it! That's the crux of the problem: Christian dualism has so exaggerated the difference between God and the world that it cannot really show how the two form a unity.
~ Unknown
Blinky couldn't bench press a breadstick
~ Paul Levine
At this point, if someone came in here and said he was Superman and he could piss that shark away from here, I'd say fine and dandy. I'd even hold his dick for him.
~ Peter Benchley
In my judgment, we suffer quite as much from exaggerated, hysterical, and untruthful or slanderous statements in the press as from any wrongdoing by businessmen or politicians.
~ Unknown
description by the former girlfriend of a grossly overweight MP, who had said that making love to him was like having a wardrobe fall on top of her with the key still in the door. That
~ Peter James