“It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.”
Mark Twain
“I don't exaggerate - I just remember big”
Chi Chi Rodriguez
“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.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“You exaggerate your own reactions.”
Dylan Moran
“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration,”
Helmut Schmidt
“All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate”
Chamfort
