Exaggeration Is Quotes - Page 2

• I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

  Jack Benny

  Business, Want, I Can

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• Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

  Milan Kundera

  Humility, Together, Delight

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• But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Expression, Intellectual

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.170, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Military, Islamic, People

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• I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Thinking, Government, Liberty

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• Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

  Drew Carey

  Comedy, Bigs, Said

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, November, 1997.

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• It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

  Arianna Huffington

  Class, Middle, Endangered Species

  Arianna Huffington (2010). “Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream”, p.4, Broadway Books

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

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Passion, Exaggeration

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• There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

  Virginia Foxx

  Lying, Cells, Perspective

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• Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

  Barbara Mertz

  Humor, Form, Exaggeration

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• Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Taste, Judgment, Shows

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• Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Branches, Exaggeration

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Generosity, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Exaggeration is my only reality.

  Diana Vreeland

  Reality, Exaggeration

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