Top 248 Exaggerate Quotes & Sayings

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

You exaggerate your own reactions.

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another thing.... Yet what were history if he did not exaggerate it? How comes it that history never has to wait for facts, but for a man to write it? The ages may go on forgetting the facts never so long, he can remember two for every one forgotten. The musty records of history, like the catacombs, contain the perishable remains, but only in the breast of genius are embalmed the souls of heroes.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

I don't exaggerate - I just remember big.

You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.

Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.

To think out a problem is not unlike drawing a caricature. You have to exaggerate the salient point and leave out that which is not typical. "To illustrate a principle ," says Bagehot , "you must exaggerate much and you must omit much." As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought : it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind they are interesting and they stimulate.

Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.

We can exaggerate about many things; but we can never exaggerate our obligation to Jesus, or the compassionate abundance of the love of Jesus to us. All our lives long we might talk of Jesus, and yet we should never come to an end of the sweet things that might be said of Him.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Big sisters exaggerate.

I admit that when the facts are not good enough, I always exaggerate them.

I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

We weaken what we exaggerate.

Attackers have to be selfish on the pitch occasionally, but it's important not to exaggerate.

Answer questions truthfully and don't exaggerate your experience. Lies will come back to haunt you.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

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.

It is good to have organizations but not to exaggerate their importance out of due proportion.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.

I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate.

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate.

You can focus on one single match and celebrate, but you must not exaggerate, because there is another one.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

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.

I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

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!

The best advice I've ever heard about anything is this: Don't exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don't exaggerate!

If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive.

Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

All rappers exaggerate.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

Don't exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein

The media exaggerate little things.

All losers exaggerate because they want you to know how bad they feel.