EXAGGERATION

Related Subjects: Accuracy, Boasting, Excess, Extravagance, Honesty, Imagination

1. We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.—BALZAC
   

2. They make of a fly an elephant, and of a molehill a mountain.—THOMAS BECON, Catechism
   

3. Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean, untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that "we always weaken what we exaggerate."—TRYON EDWARDS
   

4. An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.—KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam
   

5. There is a sort of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain: but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.—DAVID HUME
   

6. To make a mountain of a molehill.—Proverb
   

7. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.—MARK TWAIN, Cable from Europe to the Associated Press