exaggeration quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON-1487303826
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?
exaggeration quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1487269198
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
exaggeration quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1487260282
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.
exaggeration quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1487227849
Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
exaggeration quotes by WILLA SIBERT CATHER-1487221930
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.
exaggeration quotes by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING-1487180381
We overstate the ills of life, and takeImagination... down our earth to rake...
exaggeration quotes by TRYON EDWARDS-1487172771
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
exaggeration quotes by HONORE DE BALZAC-1487144990
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
exaggeration quotes by FRENCH PROVERB-1487143508
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
exaggeration quotes by GEORGE ELIOT-1487142217
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
exaggeration quotes by ELIZA COOK-1487140817
Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
exaggeration quotes by BOB EDWARDS-1487138144
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
exaggeration quotes by WILLIAM ALGER-1487136905
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
exaggeration quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1487135582
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
exaggeration quotes by NICOLAS CHAMFORT-1487131449
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
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