Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

103. “Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

104. “Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

105. “Sometimes a woman offers a man friendship out of pity, as a consolation, or as a consolation prize, for his failure to make her want him, or at least agree to be in a relationship with him.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

106. “Everlasting pain is often caused by the pursuit of fleeting pleasure.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

107. “Tears of joy and tears of sorrow sometimes have very different causes, but always have the very same properties.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

108. “For their children’s good deeds, parents take credit for themselves. For their children’s bad deeds, parents give blame to society.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

109. “The smiles of the unhappiest are often the widest.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

114. “Humans are trash.”

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

118. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

120. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

122. “The only thing I hate about good people is that they like making their being good people bad people’s problem.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

127. “Life has always been and will always be beautiful, regardless of how some or even all people have looked, are looking, or will look at it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

128. “Wondering about other people’s private affairs is a one-man gossip.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

129. “Unlike existing, living requires effort.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

132. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

135. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

138. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

146. “The wise strive for their best. The foolish strive for perfection.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

147. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

149. “It is foolish to expect a fool to act wisely.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

150. “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