{"quotes":[{"text":"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.","author":"Alice Roosevelt Longworth","tags":["vices","foibles"],"id":6968,"author_id":"Alice+Roosevelt+Longworth"},{"text":"Laugh and the world laughs with you  snore and you sleep alone.","author":"Katharine Whitehorn","tags":["vices","foibles"],"id":12002,"author_id":"Katharine+Whitehorn"},{"text":"I believe in practicing prudence  at least once every two or three years.","author":"Molly Ivins","tags":["vices","foibles"],"id":25897,"author_id":"Molly+Ivins"},{"text":"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["allegory","jealousy","mockery","monsters","vices"],"id":26196,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.","author":"George Carlin","tags":["vices","foibles"],"id":33083,"author_id":"George+Carlin"},{"text":"I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.","author":"Oscar Levant","tags":["vices","foibles"],"id":37136,"author_id":"Oscar+Levant"},{"text":"I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.","author":"Howard Crossman","tags":["vices","foibles"],"id":43488,"author_id":"Howard+Crossman"},{"text":"Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater’s heaven. I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fail when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America. Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["humor","music","prophetic","vices"],"id":51849,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"I've had these demons for years, maybe for my whole life. Then you came along to provoke them, expose them, and eventually rid me of them, because I believe you're the only human that can.","author":"Crystal Woods","tags":["afflictions","believe","demons","life","saved","vices"],"id":58048,"author_id":"Crystal+Woods"},{"text":"To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["love","sacrifice","vices","virtue"],"id":61131,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}