Exaggeration

(201 votes)   It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(123 votes)   An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(117 votes)   It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-, American Historian

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(111 votes)   Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(107 votes)   Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Joseph Conrad
1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist

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(103 votes)   Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(95 votes)   Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

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(94 votes)   He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.

Ivern Ball

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(90 votes)   Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(90 votes)   Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(89 votes)   'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(77 votes)   Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans.

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(75 votes)   There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(70 votes)   We always weaken everything we exaggerate.

La Harpe

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(64 votes)   I never exaggerate. I just remember big.

Chi Chi Rodriguez
1935-, Golfer born in Puerto Rico

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