Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Fortunately, some people eat a lot or drink only on special occasions. Unfortunately, they see every – or almost every – day of their lives as a special occasion.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

202. “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

203. “In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

204. “Some men are dogs; some dogs are women.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

207. “The vast majority of those who deem some people fools because they are fooled by their political leaders are themselves fooled by their religious leaders. And vice versa.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

210. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

213. “A sane man who is untidy seems crazier than a tidy man who is insane.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

214. “To live is to owe life to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

215. “A conscience is a self-reproaching program that is installed in us, not by nature, but by our culture.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

216. “Some people hate being single so much that they are often the boyfriend or girlfriend of someone who they do not love.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

218. “Horniness pretty much always oversells an orgasm.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

222. “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

223. “It is always the wrong time to meet the wrong person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

224. “The main differences between prostitution and most relationships are the lengths of the relationships and the methods of payment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

227. “Death is freedom from life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

230. “Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

231. “Being on the side of the majority is often a sign that you are wrong, or the most unlikely to be right.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

234. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

236. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

238. “Our seriousness prevents us from enjoying the circus of life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

241. “One of the main goals of culture and religion is to make us fail to realize or remember that humans, too, are animals.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

242. “Man’s exploitation of the environment is a circuitous route to unintended suicide.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

243. “One of our most serious challenges is that we mature sexually way before we do mentally. And what’s worse is that mental maturity is not even guaranteed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

244. “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

245. “Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

246. “When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

247. “The human population would still be less than a million if intellectual maturity were a prerequisite for human fertility.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

248. “Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

249. “It takes generosity to be the one teaching, and humility to be the one being taught.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

250. “Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana