Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

102. “Among other things, culture is the decision as to how a corpse is to be returned to the soil.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

103. “The mismanagement of money makes many overpaid people seem underpaid.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

104. “To make someone hate you even more, refuse to hate them back.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

105. “A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

106. “Humans are trash.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

107. “Men are born with nothing with which to buy. Women are born with something to sell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

108. “It is easy to be a good person when times are good.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

109. “The biggest problem with democracy is that the weight of a vote is not determined by the degree of the voter’s intelligence, ignorance, or stupidity.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

110. “Unlike existing, living requires effort.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

111. “Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

112. “Sometimes silence is a sign, not of not knowing what to say, but of knowing when to say what you know.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

113. “Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

114. “It takes maturity to admit that you are wrong, especially when you are right.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

115. “Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

116. “Civilization has turned human beings into the worst thing to ever happen to planet earth.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

117. “The wise remind themselves that ‘This too shall pass’ even when things are good; the foolish, only when things are bad.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

118. “We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

119. “When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

120. “Most people never cease to exercise their right to disbelieve something that is obvious, or to believe something that is ridiculous.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

121. “Nothing humbles a rich man better than not being wanted by a woman whose man is poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

122. “Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results is at times a sign of sanity.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

123. “The wise treat horniness like a hiccup; the foolish, like an asthma attack.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

124. “Life is a symphony to the wise. And a cacophony to the foolish.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

125. “Our education system would be betraying its master, capitalism, if it taught us to be content with what we have. Or if it told us about the fruits of practicing minimalism.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

126. “Life never happens to anyone. Everyone is always part of life’s happening.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

127. “People who died of starvation are not nearly as pitiful as those who died of overeating.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

128. “The degree of our intellectual growth is inversely proportional to the number of people with whom we are still close friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

129. “A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

130. “A genius is produced not by a woman’s womb but by a man’s efforts.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

131. “Sometimes the correct answer is neither ‘a’ nor ‘b’, but ‘a-b’.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

132. “Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

133. “Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

134. “Polluting the air is even more foolish when it is done through a fire that is fuelled by the trunk or branches of a tree.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

135. “Calmness has the power to leave dirty water as clean water on top of dirt.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

136. “In most cases, travelling does not really broaden one’s mind; it merely shows or reminds one that one’s mind is narrow.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

137. “Finishing off someone’s sentence is annoying, even if you have guessed correctly. Add to that rude, if they stutter.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

138. “A beautiful woman has an unfair advantage when her work, performance, or ability is judged by a straight man. But has an unfair disadvantage when it is judged by an ugly woman.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

139. “Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

140. “Refusing to have a child is the highest degree of rebellion, after suicide; one of the best uses of the mind; and the best gift to the planet.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

141. “Some things are not worth dying for, but without them life is not worth living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

142. “Some people love attention so much that they usually wish for their rhetorical question to be answered.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

143. “We ought to be thankful not for our eyes but for our ability to see.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

144. “Being in a hurry does not slow down time.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

145. “We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

146. “If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

147. “Because they can be lost, things such as success and fame – unlike things such as intelligence and wisdom – are accompanied by anxiety.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

148. “You need to have really wasted your life to envy the young for being young.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

149. “Our mortality makes it impossible for our problems to last forever.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

150. “The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana