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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
I was wrong to exaggerate in statements related to my experiences in the White House and the Royal Family. I am truly sorry for misleading people and misstating the facts.
So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?
Everything I say is true and from the heart. I exaggerate some things, but the core base of it is just facts.
My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.
Music is an outlet, so I'm not going to get things out that aren't true. Sometimes I do exaggerate - but only a little bit.
My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.
It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.
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.
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.
I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
It would be hard to exaggerate Ernest Hemingway's influence over American literature, but his influence on our lives is probably larger still.
When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more people could relate to.
Never exaggerate. Never say more than you really mean.
You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I dont even have to exaggerate.
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.
One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
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.
Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.
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.
They always use the word 'insult' with me, but I don't hurt anybody. I wouldn't be sitting here if I did. I make fun of everybody and exaggerate all our insecurities.
Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.
Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
You always exaggerate things in a movie. If it makes a good visual and it excites the kids that's good.
The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.
You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.
I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.
I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me.
It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.
I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.
People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.
Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.
The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
even our first or second problem, maybe the third
I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.
There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.
There is a tendency to over-exaggerate and over-romanticise the place of a writer in a revolution. That bothers me. I think it's inappropriate.
