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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

We always weaken everything we exaggerate.

I never exaggerate. I just remember big.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.