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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
— Honore De Balzac
We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.
— David L. Katz
If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.
— Rodney Ulyate
Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.
— Franz Grillparzer
It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.
— Claire Danes
Anglers ... exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
— Roderick Haig-Brown
People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.
— Richard Thaler
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
— George Bernard Shaw
When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face.
— Robert Greene
I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.
— Jim Crace
The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true - nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
— Amy Hempel
We exaggerate the glory of some men in order to detract from that of others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
— Anthony Trollope
I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Legends exaggerate.
— Toba Beta
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate - or diminish - truth?
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don't even go looking for angels.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
monopolists downplay their monopoly status to avoid scrutiny, while competitive firms strategically exaggerate their uniqueness.
— Peter Thiel
I exaggerate everything, that is where I go wrong.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.
— Jon Ronson
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.
— Robert D. Putnam
I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate.
— Charlie Nicholas
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
— Hugh Mackay
It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.
— Bill Delahunt
If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it.
— Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah
I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.
— Joe Biden
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
— Charles Spurgeon
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To exaggerate is to weaken.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
— Matthew Arnold
What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.
— Wayne Knight
Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
— Daniel Kahneman
Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
To exaggerate is to paint a rainbow with additional colors.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You exaggerate everything. You continually force the truth because you're always looking for something.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Old people always exaggerate the danger and lawlessness of their youth, thought Cam, because their adult lives have become so boring.
— Wendy Wunder
Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn't let something be what it actually was.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
— Nahum Goldmann
We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
— Henry David Thoreau
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
— Honore De Balzac
Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.
— Steve Vai
Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate - always.
— Diana Vreeland
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
— Eric Hoffer
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
— George Santayana
It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.
— Mark Twain
Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that's the case, we should get busy returning them.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
You exaggerate your own reactions.
— Dylan Moran
People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
even our first or second problem, maybe the third — Atiku Abubakar
even our first or second problem, maybe the third — Atiku Abubakar
The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
— John Perry Barlow
We weaken what we exaggerate.
— Jean-Francois De La Harpe
The artist has the liberty to exaggerate, to create in his novel a world more beautiful, more simple, more consoling than ours.
— Irving Stone
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
— Sarah Bernhardt
Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
— Henry David Thoreau
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
— Nicolas Bentley
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.
— Bill Johnson
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
— Joseph Joubert
I exaggerate
There is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue — A.A. Patawaran
There is a lie in my truth
Look! My soul is blue — A.A. Patawaran
Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
— Charles De Secondat
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
— Criss Jami
I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.
— Matthew Lawrence
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
— Martin Parr
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
— G.K. Chesterton
People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.
— Johnny Depp
An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.
— Johan Lindeberg
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
— Aaron Hill
I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.
— Mary Gaitskill
You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.
— Diane Von Furstenberg
Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
— Charlotte Bronte
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
— Eric Hoffer
I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.
— Simon Rex
I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don't actually ever lie.
— Lucia Berlin
Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.
— Vincent Van Gogh
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.
— Arthur Phillips
Journalists are notoriously prone to exaggerate the beneficial impact of elections and to ignore more complex developments.
— Patrick Cockburn
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
— David Biespiel
Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein
— Stieg Larsson