Fortune List
API endpoint: Fortune
GET /api/fortune/?format=api&page=29
https://nymology.org/api/fortune/?format=api&page=28", "results": [ { "body": "Why is it that there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses? ― G. Gordon Liddy", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2476 }, { "body": "Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "Why is it that we rejoice at a q1s_NN and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. ― Mark Twain", "q1": [ { "name": "egg_reproduction", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_reproduction", "e": "prolifeferate", "r": "seed", "o": "nurture", "s": "birth", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 122 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2762 }, { "body": "Why isn't \"palindrome\" spelled the same way backwards?", "qode": "Why is n't\" palindrome\" spelled the q1s_JJ way backwards?", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2477 }, { "body": "\"Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?\" ― Lily Tomlin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 97 }, { "body": "Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? ― Lily Tomlin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2478 }, { "body": "\"Why was I born with such contemporaries?\" ― Oscar Wilde", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 98 }, { "body": "Wiker's Law: Government expands to absorb all available revenue and then some.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2479 }, { "body": "Wiker's Law: Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2480 }, { "body": "Williams and Holland's Law: If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.", "qode": "Williams and Holland 's Law: If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by q1r_JJ methods.", "q1": [ { "name": "evidence", "user": "scotty", "src": "Seech", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence", "e": "analogical", "r": "statistical", "o": "testimonial", "s": "anecdotal", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 48 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2482 }, { "body": "Will the highways on the Internet become more few? ― George W. Bush, Concord, NH; January 29, 2000", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2481 }, { "body": "Windows is a manifestation of commerce; Unix is a manifestation of culture. ― Rich Simons", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2637 }, { "body": "Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2483 }, { "body": "With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2484 }, { "body": "With a rubber duck, one's never alone. ― \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2726 }, { "body": "With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2485 }, { "body": "With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. ― Ransom K. Ferm", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2486 }, { "body": "With friends like these, who need hallucinations?", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2487 }, { "body": "With great effort, you move the rug aside, revealing a trap door.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2488 }, { "body": "Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less important to him than his table or his white robe. ― Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac", "qode": "Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less important to him than his q1n_NN or his white robe. ― Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac", "q1": [ { "name": "table", "user": "dane", "e": "raised", "r": "flat", "o": "top", "s": "surface", "quadranym_id": 30 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2489 }, { "body": "Without ice cream life and fame are meaningless.", "qode": "Without ice cream q1n_NN and fame are meaningless.", "q1": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2490 }, { "body": "Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2786 }, { "body": "Words are the voice of the heart.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2491 }, { "body": "Words must be weighed, not counted.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2492 }, { "body": "Working in Windows is like baking moose shit pie. Sure, you're baking pies, but look what's in 'em. ― Rich Simons", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2638 }, { "body": "Worst Vegetable of the Year: The brussels sprout. This is also the worst vegetable of next year. ― Steve Rubenstein", "qode": "Worst Vegetable of the Year: The brussels sprout. This is also the q1r_JJS vegetable of next year. ― Steve Rubenstein", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2493 }, { "body": "\"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?\" \"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,\" said the Cat. ― Lewis Carrol", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 99 }, { "body": "Wozencraft's Law: If you make all of your plans on the assumption that a particular thing won't happen―it will.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2494 }, { "body": "Write [code] in a way that clearly communicates your intent. ― Douglas Crockford, during his keynote at YUIConf 2011", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2700 }, { "body": "Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing. ― Gerald Weinberg", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2495 }, { "body": "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2496 }, { "body": "Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed. ― Bob Gray", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2497 }, { "body": "Writing programs needs genius to save the last order or the last millisecond. It is great fun, but it is a young man's game. You start it with great enthusiasm when you first start programming, but after ten years you get a bit bored with it, and then you turn to automatic-programming languages and use them because they enable you to get to the heart of the problem that you want to do, instead of having to concentrate on the mechanics of getting the program going as fast as you possibly can, which is really nothing more than doing a sort of crossword puzzle. ― Christopher Strachey, 1962", "qode": "Writing programs needs genius to save the last q1r_NN or the last millisecond. It is great fun, but it is a young man 's game. You start it with great enthusiasm when you first start programming, but after ten years you get a bit bored with it, and then you turn to automatic- programming languages and use them because they enable you to get to the heart of the problem that you want to do, instead of having to concentrate on the mechanics of getting the program going as fast as you possibly can, which is really q2r_NN more than doing a sort of crossword puzzle. ― Christopher Strachey, 1962", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian zeal", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "everything", "r": "nothing", "o": "hope", "s": "despair", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 131 }, { "name": "physical control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_pest_control", "e": "command", "r": "order", "o": "directive", "s": "communication", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 84 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "RR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2498 }, { "body": "Xerox does it again and again and again and ...", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2499 }, { "body": "Xerox never comes up with anything original.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2500 }, { "body": "XML is just data with that Internet shit wrapped around it. ― Joe Romello, by way of Steve Sapovits", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2501 }, { "body": "\"Yacc\" owes much to a most stimulating collection of users, who have goaded me beyond my inclination, and frequently beyond my ability in their endless search for \"one more feature\". Their irritating unwillingness to learn how to do things my way has usually led to my doing things their way; most of the time, they have been right. ― S. C. Johnson, \"Yacc guide acknowledgements\"", "qode": "\" Yacc\" owes much to a most stimulating collection of users, who have goaded me beyond my inclination, and frequently beyond my q2s_NN in their endless search for\" one more feature\". Their irritating unwillingness to q1n_VB how to do things my way has usually led to my doing things their way; most of the time, they have been right. ― S. C. Johnson,\" Yacc guide acknowledgements\"", "q1": [ { "name": "love", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "http://heartcorps.com/journeys/essaylov.htm", "e": "thought", "r": "knowledge", "o": "desire", "s": "ability", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 52 }, { "name": "learner", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "known", "s": "knower", "quadranym_id": 14 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "SN", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 100 }, { "body": "Yes, but every time I try to see things your way, I get a headache.", "qode": "Yes, but every q1n_NN I try to see things your way, I get a headache.", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2502 }, { "body": "Yes, but which self do you want to be?", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2503 }, { "body": "Yes, many primitive people still believe this myth...But in today's technical vastness of the future, we can guess that surely things were much different. ― The Firesign Theater", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2504 }, { "body": "Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today ― I think he's from the CIA.", "qode": "Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who was n't there. He was n't there again today ― I q1r_VBP he 's from the CIA.", "q1": [ { "name": "simplicity", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity", "e": "live", "r": "think", "o": "details", "s": "generalities", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 108 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2506 }, { "body": "\"Yes, that was Richard Nixon. He used to be President. When he left the White House, the Secret Service would count the silverware.\" ― Woody Allen, \"Sleeper\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 101 }, { "body": "Yes, we have no bonanzas.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2505 }, { "body": "\"Yes, well, that's just the sort of blinkered, Philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist, you excrement! You whining, hypocritical toadies with your Tony Jacklin golf clubs, your colour TVs and your bleedin' Masonic handshakes! You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards?! WELL I WOULDN'T BECOME A FREEMASON NOW IF YOU GOT DOWN ON YOUR LOUSY STINKING KNEES AND BEGGED ME!\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 102 }, { "body": "Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again. ― Lazarus Long, \"Time Enough for Love\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2507 }, { "body": "Yinkel, n.: A person who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice. ― Rich Hall, \"Sniglets\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2508 }, { "body": "You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. ― Al Capone", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2509 }, { "body": "You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2510 }, { "body": "You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN. ― Alan Perlis", "qode": "You can measure a programmer 's q1o_NN by noting his attitude on the continuing viability of FORTRAN. ― Alan Perlis", "q1": [ { "name": "conscious", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness", "e": "anticipate", "r": "memorize", "o": "perspective", "s": "introspective", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 4 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2511 }, { "body": "You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. ― Harry S Truman", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2512 }, { "body": "You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2526 }, { "body": "You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. ― Henry Ford", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2527 }, { "body": "You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2528 }, { "body": "You cannot succeed by criticizing others.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2529 }, { "body": "You can observe a lot just by watching. ― Yogi Berra", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2513 }, { "body": "You can often profit from being at a loss for words. ― Frank Tyger", "qode": "You can often profit from q1s_VBG at a loss for words. ― Frank Tyger", "q1": [ { "name": "experience", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience", "e": "occurring", "r": "reoccurring", "o": "presence", "s": "being", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 13 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2514 }, { "body": "You can take all the impact that science considerations have on funding decisions at NASA, put them in the navel of a flea, and have room left over for a caraway seed and Tony Calio's heart. ― F. Allen", "qode": "You can take all the impact that science considerations have on funding decisions at NASA, put them in the navel of a flea, and have room left over for a caraway q1r_NN and Tony Calio 's heart. ― F. Allen", "q1": [ { "name": "egg_reproduction", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_reproduction", "e": "prolifeferate", "r": "seed", "o": "nurture", "s": "birth", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 122 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2515 }, { "body": "You can't antagonize and influence at the same time.", "qode": "You ca n't antagonize and influence at the q1s_JJ time.", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2517 }, { "body": "You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2518 }, { "body": "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2519 }, { "body": "You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers. ― Steven Feiner", "qode": "You can tell how q1e_RB we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers. ― Steven Feiner", "q1": [ { "name": "distance", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance", "e": "far", "r": "near", "o": "relation", "s": "position", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 9 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2516 }, { "body": "You can't get there from here.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2520 }, { "body": "You can't have everything. Where would you put it? ― Steven Wright", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2853 }, { "body": "You can't have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families. ― Jim McCarthy", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2521 }, { "body": "You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2522 }, { "body": "You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. ― Lauren Bacall", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2523 }, { "body": "\"You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't.\" ― Dagwood Bumstead", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 103 }, { "body": "You can't teach self-esteem. Self-esteem arises from attempting challenging tasks and mastering them.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2524 }, { "body": "You can't underestimate the power of fear. ― Tricia Nixon", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2525 }, { "body": "You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. ― Ed Meese, on the Hinckley verdict", "qode": "You could n't even prove the White House q1s_NN sane beyond a reasonable doubt. ― Ed Meese, on the Hinckley verdict", "q1": [ { "name": "treatment center", "user": "lori", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncology", "e": "efficacy", "r": "resources", "o": "tech", "s": "staff", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 43 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2530 }, { "body": "You don't have to explain something you never said. ― Calvin Coolidge", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2531 }, { "body": "You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers. ― J. D. Salinger", "qode": "You do n't have to q1r_VB too hard when you talk to teachers. ― J. D. Salinger", "q1": [ { "name": "simplicity", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity", "e": "live", "r": "think", "o": "details", "s": "generalities", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 108 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2532 }, { "body": "You don't want another Enron? Here's the law: If you have a company, and it can't explain, in one sentence... what it does... it's illegal! ― Lewis Black", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2687 }, { "body": "You know that feeling when you're leaning back on a stool and it starts to tip over? Well, that's how I feel all the time. ― Steven Wright", "qode": "You know that q1s_VBG when you 're leaning back on a stool and it starts to tip over? Well, that 's how I feel all the time. ― Steven Wright", "q1": [ { "name": "valence", "user": "scotty", "src": "psychology", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence_electron", "e": "attract", "r": "avert", "o": "object", "s": "feeling", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 111 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2854 }, { "body": "You know why there are so few sophisticated computer terrorists in the United States? Because your hackers have so much mobility into the establishment. Here, there is no such mobility. If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot support the government.... That's why the best computer minds belong to the opposition. ― an anonymous member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity", "qode": "You know why there are so few sophisticated computer terrorists in the United States? Because your hackers have so much mobility into the establishment. Here, there is no such mobility. If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you can not support the government .... That 's why the q1e_JJS computer minds belong to the opposition. ― an anonymous member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2534 }, { "body": "You know, you really half give me a buzz. ― Stevie Ray Vaughan, \"Honey Bee\" (from \"Couldn't Stand the Weather\")", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2533 }, { "body": "\"You'll never be the man your mother was!\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 104 }, { "body": "You may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth. ― Nicklaus Wirth", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2535 }, { "body": "You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. ― Alfred Kahn", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2536 }, { "body": "You must, therefore, hasten, not only because you are every day nearer to death, but also because your intellect, which enables you to know the true nature of things and to order all your actions by that knowledge, wastes and decays daily―or, may fail you before you die. ― Marcus Aurelius, \"The Meditations\", Book II", "qode": "You must, therefore, hasten, not only because you are every day nearer to death, but also because your intellect, which enables you to know the true nature of things and to q1r_VB all your actions by that knowledge, wastes and decays daily―or, may fail you before you die. ― Marcus Aurelius,\" The Meditations\", Book II", "q1": [ { "name": "physical control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_pest_control", "e": "command", "r": "order", "o": "directive", "s": "communication", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 84 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2605 }, { "body": "You never finish a program, you just stop working on it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2538 }, { "body": "You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2537 }, { "body": "You or I must yield up his life to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own life to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company. ― J. Wellington Wells", "qode": "You or I must yield up his q1n_NN to Ahrimanes. I would rather it were you. I should have no hesitation in sacrificing my own q1n_NN to spare yours, but we take stock next week, and it would not be fair on the company. ― J. Wellington Wells", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "subs": "NN", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2539 }, { "body": "Your attitude determines your attitude. ― Zig Ziglar, self-improvement doofus", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2544 }, { "body": "Your conscience never stops you from doing anything. It just stops you from enjoying it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2545 }, { "body": "You're never too old to become younger. ― Mae West", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2543 }, { "body": "Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true.", "qode": "Your q1s_NN understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is true.", "q1": [ { "name": "soulmate", "user": "kemp", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulmate", "e": "love", "r": "lust", "o": "body", "s": "mind", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 74 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2546 }, { "body": "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2547 }, { "body": "Your reality is lies and balderdash, and I'm glad to say that I have no grasp of it. ― Baron von Munchausen", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2548 }, { "body": "Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2549 }, { "body": "You see but you do not observe. ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in \"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2540 }, { "body": "You should emulate your heros, but don't carry it too far. Especially if they are dead.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2541 }, { "body": "You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty. ― Henrick Ibson", "qode": "You should never wear your q2e_JJS trousers when you go out to fight for q1s_NN and liberty. ― Henrick Ibson", "q1": [ { "name": "Golden Rule", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule", "e": "treat others", "r": "want to be treated", "o": "peace", "s": "freedom", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 73 }, { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "ES", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2542 }, { "body": "Youth is the trustee of posterity.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2550 }, { "body": "Youth is wasted on the young. ― George Bernard Shaw", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2551 }, { "body": "Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation.", "qode": "Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you q1n_VBP that q2e_NN is the fault of the younger generation.", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian zeal", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "everything", "r": "nothing", "o": "hope", "s": "despair", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 131 }, { "name": "learner", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "known", "s": "knower", "quadranym_id": 14 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "NE", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2552 }, { "body": "You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. ― Walter to The Dude (\"The Big Lebowski\")", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2793 }, { "body": "Zero Defects, n.: The result of shutting down a production line.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2553 }, { "body": "Zimmerman's Law of Complaints: Nobody notices when things go right.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2554 }, { "body": "Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad. ― William Shakespeare, \"King John\"", "qode": "Zounds! I was never so bethumped with q1r_NNS since I first called my brother 's father dad. ― William Shakespeare,\" King John\"", "q1": [ { "name": "grounding", "user": "scotty", "src": "Deb Roy", "e": "sensing", "r": "words", "o": "speech", "s": "motor action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 54 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2555 }, { "body": "Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor: People are always available for work in the past tense.", "qode": "Zymurgy 's Law of Volunteer Labor: People are always available for q1o_NN in the q2r_JJ tense.", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 }, { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "OR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2556 } ] }{ "count": 2900, "next": null, "previous": "