# One of the most common views is the Hyperbole View, which argues that portions of what Jesus states in the Sermon are hyperbole, and that if one is to apply the teaching to the real world, they need to be " toned down.

Hyperbole is common, virtually, to all royal inscriptions of Egyptian history.

Hyperbole ( ; Greek: hyperbolē, " exaggeration ") is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.

Hyperbole helps to make the point that the bag was very heavy, although it is not probable that it would actually weigh a ton.

All of us, that is, except me.

`` All I have to do to set the record is to go on down.

All, that is, except Jack.

`` All right, if you can't do your arithmetic during school hours you can do it after school is out '', Miss Langford said firmly, not smiling.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

`` All is not sex '', declared Lawrence.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

All his people ask for is no more war.

All of this, I know, is recent history familiar to you.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

`` It would be a disgrace, and, as I have already said to the people of Tennessee, if Hearst is nominated, we may as well pen a dispatch, and send it back from the field of battle: ' All is lost, including our honor ' ''.

All chance of fulfilling my destiny is over.

`` All you have to do, Ilka dear, is to phone on your arrival.

All you have to do is put in a fresh lamb from time to time ''.

At his press conference Mr. Kennedy said, `` All we want in Laos is peace not war a truly neutral government not a cold war pawn ''.

All across the South there are signs that racial violence is finding less approval among whites who themselves would never take active part but might once have shown a tolerant attitude toward it.

All he does is to bullshit with his squad, and they are the stupidest bastards around.

`` All dey know down dere is it were at Manassas Junction and it were a big fight '', the old man told them.

All of Poland is a coffin.

All he cares about is his whisky and that dry crack in his face.

All I want is a picture -- with a few lines.

All framing in Hotei is one-inch mahogany which, in the dressed state you buy it, is about the 13/16-inch thickness specified in the drawings.

All states have provisions in their rate regulation laws or in their fair trade practice acts that prohibit unfair discrimination, often called redlining, in setting rates and making insurance available.

* 1853 – Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.

However, people will often quote only a fraction of a proverb to invoke an entire proverb, e. g. " All is fair " instead of " All is fair in love and war ", and " A rolling stone " for " A rolling stone gathers no moss.

All nations pledged to follow the Hague rules on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and in general the POWs had a much higher survival rate than their peers who were not captured.

All participating parties and international observer groups accepted the results as " free and fair.

At the time, the major male star was Wallace Reid, with a fair complexion, light eyes, and an All American look, with Valentino the opposite, eventually supplanting Sessue Hayakawa as Hollywood's most popular " exotic " male lead.

All the dowsers signed a statement agreeing this was a fair test of their abilities and that they expected a 100 percent success rate, however the results were no better than chance.

** Ana Ng mentions the line " All alone at the Sixty-Four World's Fair / Eighty dolls yelling ' Small Girl After All '", a direct reference to the fair and the " It's a small world " attraction.

In 1204 King John granted the rights for a fair at the feast of All Saints, 1 November, and in 1258 Henry III granted the right for fair on the feast of St John the Baptist, 24 June.

– All bananas sold at Sainsbury's are now fair trade.

All twisted, screwed, wiredrawn ; with such a restless sensitiveness ; the uttermost inability to let Nature have fair play with him!

Without any fear Lü said ‘ go ahead and take my life since I took yours in past life, this is fair and square !’ All of a sudden the sky turned blue and those ghost and devils disappeared.

The cliché " All is fair in love and war " finds justification for lies used to gain advantage in these situations.

All possible random walk outcomes after 5 flips of a fair coin

All tickets must be purchased off-site ; no tickets will be sold at the fair site at any time.

All volunteers agree to the Oregon Country fair Guidelines and Code of Conduct.

All ground disturbing activities on the fair property must be approved by the archaeology and construction crews.

The fair also hosts the All New England Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off.

The proverb " All is fair in love and war " has been attributed to Lyly's Euphues.