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Sermon Quotations Archive
Quotations regarding 'Exaggeration'
28 entries • Page 1 of 2
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
William R. Alger, American Writer
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Walter Bagehot, English Author (1826-1877)
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou, American Clergyman (1771- )
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett, American Businessman (1972- )
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings, American Comedian (1818-1885)
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.
Walther Bothe, German Physicist (1891-1957)
It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
George H. W. Bush, American President (1924- )
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Drew Carey, American Actor (1961- )
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
John Clayton, -
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney, American Cartoonist (1901-1966)
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, American Politician (1943- )
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran, Poet (1883-1931)
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, Austrian Economist (1899-1992)
It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
Lafcadio Hearn, Japanese Author (1850-1904)
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
Arianna Huffington, American Journalist (1950- )
With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
Satish Kumar, Indian Activist
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, Czechoslovakian Writer (1929- )
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
John Walker Lindh, American Criminal (1981- )
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
Mark Lloyd, American Public Servant
They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
Wendie Malick, American Actress (1950- )
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