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Legends Quotes - Page 4

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

Tim Tharp (2008). “Knights of the Hill Country”, p.182, Knopf Books for Young Readers

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

"A recent interview with Frank Sinatra Jr., who died this week". www.dailypress.com. March 17, 2016.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books

no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”