There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can’t tell the truth without lying.       —Josh Billings

To exaggerate is to weaken.                 —Jean François de La Harpe

If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.              —The Talmud

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. 

—William Alger

Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. 

—Eliza Cook

Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness. 

                                                                                                      —Voltaire

Some folks never exaggerate — they just remember big. 

—Chi Chi Rodriguez

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught. 

—Unknown

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.                  —Proverb

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.                —Hosea Ballou

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.             —Nicolas Chamfort

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.  

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. 

—French Proverb

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