Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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.
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.
In the heat of our campaigns we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet on the whole our political process has served us well.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith and inconsistent with it. But all science in fact rests on a basis of faith for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.