In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.
We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.
You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.
The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!
Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.
As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.
There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all other...
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.
Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.
Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.