A Quote by Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
American - Writer
August 12, 1867 - May 31, 1963

Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

Henry David Thoreau

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

Eugene Ionesco

The result can be quite new - perhaps a tendency to judge that something we've never conceived of is possible, or to feel sympathy for a trait or a type of person whom we've regarded with indifference or even hostility.

Philip Kitcher

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of this is true, how much invented.

Dave Itzkoff

My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

Gregor Mendel

As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?

J. Sidlow Baxter

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

Mark Twain

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

Henry James Sumner Maine

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

Neale Donald Walsch

I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.

Francesco Totti

I always loved watching old movies and I loved Marilyn Monroe and all those blondes; that hyper feminine 1950s glamour and the exaggeration of it. Then Jessica Rabbit came along and it was an exaggeration of that look and so I wanted to be even more exaggerated than that.

Amanda Lepore

[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

Horace Walpole

Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.

Elliott Sober

It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.

Sam Kean

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Pierre Corneille

A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.

John Mott

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