Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

153. “Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

154. “Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

156. “A problem is a shadow of the illusion of a self.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

157. “Ignorance is at best merely a drop of bliss, whereas spiritual knowledge is at all times an ocean of bliss.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

158. “One passionate kiss wets a woman’s lips two times.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

159. “Fools believe those in power over their own eyes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

160. “Some people are chronically unhappy only because they do not have some of the things some people expect them to want.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

161. “Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

162. “We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

163. “The mind is inclined to zoom in on your problem, or few problems, to an extend that you cannot see your many blessings.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

164. “Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

165. “Pretending to be wise is way more difficult than pretending not to be a fool.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

166. “Those who are not patient enough to pursue greatness chase fame.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

167. “Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

168. “Most people master the art of postponing the start.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

170. “The illiterate do not write letters; they draw them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

171. “You can be dead sure and still be dead wrong.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

172. “Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

173. “He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

174. “Having the least usually forces us to make the most of what we have.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

175. “We are all capable of doing every terrible thing that we are capable of doing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

176. “To live is to owe life to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

177. “The hatred of money is generally a subconscious attempt to alleviate the pain of being broke or poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

178. “Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

179. “Relaxing brings weakness, when done by a muscle; but brings strength, when done by a person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

180. “Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

181. “It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

182. “Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

183. “Nature is a constant reminder of the beauty of consistence, the utility of patience and persistence, the vanity of arrogance, and the necessity of impermanence.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

184. “Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

185. “Some people will hate you for not hiding your blessings.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

186. “It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

187. “Almost everything that will be said or done by someone who is suspected of being insane will seem to confirm that suspicion.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

189. “We sometimes pretend to agree with a statement, as an attempt to hide the fact that we are not smart enough to understand it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

190. “The absence of doubt is not necessarily a sign of the presence of truth.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

192. “It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

193. “Some people are not really good listeners. They are merely good at keeping quiet for a long time, while someone is talking to them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

194. “An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

195. “Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

196. “Psychoanalysis is a conspiracy against the tourism industry: it makes travelling to faraway places in order to better understand human beings unnecessary.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

197. “There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

198. “Most nobodies are somebodies and most somebodies are nobodies somewhere.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

199. “If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

200. “We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana