{"quotes":[{"text":"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.","author":"George Washington","tags":["defense","insult","peace","prosperity","war"],"id":4733,"author_id":"George+Washington"},{"text":"In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["desire","importance","insult","insults","maan","praise","respect","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":9648,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!","author":"Gerald Morris","tags":["antigone","bookish","brave","gawain","insult","learned","smart","tactless"],"id":10687,"author_id":"Gerald+Morris"},{"text":"Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.","author":"Gena Showalter","tags":["funny","insult","poem"],"id":13609,"author_id":"Gena+Showalter"},{"text":"As cliché as it might sound, I'd rather lose than win by cheating. The latter is a much deeper, more personal loss in that one is admittedly whispering to himself his lack of competence. His cheating then begets more cheating, as he is ever-privately, ever-subconsciously insulting himself; thus, gradually deteriorating any remaining confidence.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["academics","cheating","cliche","college","confidence","dignity","exams","games","honesty","honor","honor-code","insecurity","insult","integrity","losing","lying","mental","noble","personal","psychology","quizzes","school","sin","sincerity","sports","subliminal","subsconscious","tests","whisper","winning"],"id":22420,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the spread and campaign of ungodliness sweeping the land.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["campaign","danger","darkness","destruction","economic-injustice","god","ignorance","injustice","insult","knowledge","land","life","light","mountain","people","power","racial-injustice","ungodliness"],"id":22932,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.","author":"William Hazlitt","tags":["insult"],"id":23695,"author_id":"William+Hazlitt"},{"text":"If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["candidate","danger","darkness","destruction","experiences","god","ignorance","injustice","insult","knowledge","life","light","mountain","people","power","stand-against","ungodliness"],"id":30293,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Captain Jibby looked at the door, clenched his teeth, and worked his face into a scowl so fierce you would think the door had insulted his mother - which, for the record, it had not.","author":"Cuthbert Soup","tags":["door","funny","insult","mother"],"id":31259,"author_id":"Cuthbert+Soup"},{"text":"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.","author":"Lawrence Durrell","tags":["old age","insult","like "],"id":34205,"author_id":"Lawrence+Durrell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":182,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}