Hmm...thought provoking!

• Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive.
  - Eliza Cook
• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
  - William Alger
• Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
• We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
  - Samuel Butler