{"quotes":[{"text":"Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["blushing","embarassment","emotions","humanity"],"id":13265,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"The difference between men and women is this--if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.","author":"Deb Baker","tags":["bodies","differences","embarassment","indifference","men","mentality","shame","women"],"id":20504,"author_id":"Deb+Baker"},{"text":"Coz,' he said. 'You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["embarassment","foot-in-mouth","silence"],"id":27345,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"Were it not for frustration and humiliationI suppose the human race would get ideas above its station.","author":"Ogden Nash","tags":["embarassment","frustration","humanity","humans","humiliation","life"],"id":51090,"author_id":"Ogden+Nash"},{"text":"Bottled, was he?' Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. 'Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.","author":"Agatha Christie","tags":["alcohol","cambridge","embarassment","englishman","humor","humour","sympathy","utensil"],"id":281095,"author_id":"Agatha+Christie"},{"text":"It was 1976.It was one of the darkest days of my life when that nurse, Mrs. Shimmer, pulled out a maxi pad that measured the width and depth of a mattress and showed us how to use it. It had a belt with it that looked like a slingshot that possessed the jaw-dropping potential to pop a man's head like a gourd. As she stretched the belt between the fingers of her two hands, Mrs. Shimmer told us becoming a woman was a magical and beautiful experience.I remember thinking to myself, You're damn right it had better be magic, because that's what it's going to take to get me to wear something like that, Tinkerbell! It looked like a saddle. Weighed as much as one, too. Some girls even cried.I didn't.I raised my hand.'Mrs. Shimmer,' I asked the cautiously, 'so what kind of security napkins do boys wear when their flower pollinates? Does it have a belt, too?'The room got quiet except for a bubbling round of giggles.'You haven't been paying attention, have you?' Mrs. Shimmer accused sharply. 'Boys have stamens, and stamens do not require sanitary napkins. They require self control, but you'll learn that soon enough.'I was certainly hoping my naughty bits (what Mrs. Shimmer explained to us was like the pistil of a flower) didn't get out of control, because I had no idea what to do if they did.","author":"Laurie Notaro","tags":["embarassment","health","humor","junior-high","menstruation","nurse","school"],"id":320388,"author_id":"Laurie+Notaro"},{"text":"The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.","author":"Arthur Miller","tags":["best","bravery","courage","embarassment","fear","fury","honor","human","memory","work","write","writing"],"id":323662,"author_id":"Arthur+Miller"},{"text":"Need I say more?''No, because you're wrong, and I'd hate for you to keep embarrassing yourself.","author":"Erin McCahan","tags":["embarassment","sarcasm"],"id":395504,"author_id":"Erin+McCahan"},{"text":"There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.","author":"Lisa Gardner","tags":["embarassment","life","mistakes","past","present","reverse","said","the-neighbor","undone"],"id":399400,"author_id":"Lisa+Gardner"},{"text":"I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["dignity","embarassment","happiness","pride"],"id":444579,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}