Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “We often betray our arrogance or immaturity by asserting that we will never do something bad that we are capable of doing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

452. “Like shyness, cowardice cannot swim in alcohol.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

453. “A freedom-fighter is a slave to freedom.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

454. “The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

455. “True women empowerment will occur only as a result, not of the disempowerment of men, but of the stopping of our caring about the kind of genitals a person has, except when it comes to things such as reproduction and the use of public toilets.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

456. “Some men do not know the father of ‘their’ children.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

457. “Although every person makes mistakes, not every mistake makes a person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

458. “Some people would deem their parents or children ugly if they were not theirs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

459. “Politicians’ competence lies not in solving our problems but in convincing us that they will.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

460. “The world would be a better place if even a fraction of us became the kinds of people we have deceived others into believing we are.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

461. “Even the longest book is read and was written one word at a time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

462. “Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

463. “It takes a great degree of tolerance, and that of humility, to strongly disagree with someone, and not express your disagreement.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

464. “It is childish to be surprised by something that you knew exists or is possible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

465. “One man’s bad day is another man’s good night.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

466. “We lose huge portions of our lives to making a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

467. “Selfies often deceive us into believing that some people love themselves, or the way they look.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

468. “Most great men are turned off by women who fail to see their greatness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

469. “We are way less often deceived by looks than we are by the act of looking.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

470. “Some people have exercised their right to create their own God.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

471. “Being in a relationship has the tendency to deceive one into believing that there is someone without whom one cannot live.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

472. “It usually takes maturity in a child, and immaturity in an adult, not to be on speaking terms with someone.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

473. “You cannot love what you have become, yet hate what you have overcome.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

474. “One of the fastest ways to improve your health is to eat slowly.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

475. “Unlike meaning, the truth always survives translation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

476. “Some people each left their spouse or lover because he or she was no longer the primary source of their happiness; some, because their spouse or lover was, at that time, the primary source of their unhappiness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

477. “Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

478. “More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

479. “For food, we initially relied on nature; then ourselves; and now other people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

480. “Some real kings are drama queens.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

481. “Slavery often masquerades as freedom.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

482. “Hunger is by far the best spice.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

483. “It is often in our best interest not to understand, to misunderstand, or to pretend not to understand.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

484. “Complaining about a person is way less annoying when we complain to that person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

485. “We lose a significant portion of our lives attending ceremonies for people who have lost theirs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

486. “Every relationship is, to each party, ultimately about them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

487. “The vast majority of those who are respected for being knowledgeable have not produced even a single significant opinion or question of their own.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

488. “The simplest way to make a coward courageous is to convince them that you admire their courage.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

489. “Happiness that was pursued comes greatly diluted by the pursuit.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

490. “Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

491. “We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

492. “The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

493. “It is better to die for a dream than to live a nightmare.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

494. “Some people are wise only when they are in public.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

495. “Being educated is the closest most people will ever get to being wise or intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

496. “The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

497. “A child is one of the most common results of the lack or loss of self-control.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

498. “A fist is not a thing but a particular state of a particular thing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

499. “You don’t know what you don’t have until it comes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

500. “Not all good things are good for us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana