{"quotes":[{"text":"The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["abode","business","fake","funny","gullible","haters","liar","lie","naive","rumor","tale","tales","tall-story","transaction"],"id":93711,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I reside in an abode where your thoughts imagine me... You reside in my heart where the auricles camouflage my longing...","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["abode","camouflage","heart","longing","lonliness","thoughts","travel","travel-writing","traveler","writer","writers-on-writing"],"id":136179,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abode","abodes","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","automobile","automobiles","car","cars","cheap","class","classes","compete","competition","consumerism","earn","earnings","expensive","funny","hilarious","home","homes","house","houses","humor","humorous","humour","inexpensive","joke","jokes","mansion","mansions","materialism","money","monied","neighbor","neighborhood","neighbors","neighbour","neighbourhood","neighbours","quotations","quotes","residence","resident","residents","rich","richer","salaries","salary","satire","show-off","social-class","social-classes","spirituality","wages"],"id":183658,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abode","abodes","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheist","atheists","bible","book","books","bookshop","bookshops","bookstore","bookstores","bookworm","bookworms","college","colleges","cook","cook-book","cook-books","education","employ","employment","essay","essays","fail","funny","god","hilarious","home","homes","house","houses","humor","humorous","humour","idiot-box","joke","jokes","knowledge","libraries","library","literature","marks","pass","pass-mark","please","quotations","quotes","reader","readers","reading","religion","satire","school","schooling","scripture","scriptures","study","studying","television","telly","tv","universities","university","verse"],"id":199828,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The true purpose of your life is your ultimate abode.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["abode","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","inspirational","philosophy","purpose-of-your-life","quotes"],"id":310771,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abode","certainty","created","god","protected","protection","refuge","safety","sanctuary","sand","security","solace","stability","tides","walls"],"id":312936,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A place to live is not a place to stayA place to stay is not a living place.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["abode","home","living","place","stay"],"id":389369,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isn’t it like taking a bite of something lovely? If only we could eat words.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["abode","comedy","domicile","eating","food","funny","home","house","humor","language","metafiction","speech","words","writing"],"id":428266,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wake up; and I sleep in hereThe world far away; yet virtually near Not that I'm jailed in this place of graceJust don't want to face another face.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["abode","abode-of-the-living","alone","corner","cyber","cyberspace","depressed","depression","face","far","grace","home","introvert","jail","lifeless","living-life","loneliness","my-room","near","place","poetry","room","rooms","sleep","tiny","toad","unwilling","unwillingness","verse","virtual","virtually","wake-up","world"],"id":428632,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}