“ I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. ”
- Ed Wynn- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Comparisons with Vietnam are grossly overdrawn. We were having hundreds of casualties a week in Vietnam.... It just is not applicable at this time. ”
- John McCain- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 309
“ The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.1K
“ When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 1.6K
“ If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 549
“ If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3.6K
“ He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ”
- Kelly Millar- Copy
- 592
“ The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch. ”
- Christopher Fieldes- Copy
- 2.3K
“ His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones. ”
- St. Oliver John Gogarty- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. ”
- Alfred Adler- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 726
“ America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
- 649
“ All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 2.6K
“ My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ”
- Thomas Kretschmann- Copy
- 2.5K
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