Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

252. “Mother Nature made continents. Human beings made countries.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

253. “Some people are happy that they have each lost one instead of both legs, whereas some are unhappy because they have each lost a toenail.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

254. “It takes courage not to laugh at your boss’s joke, especially if it is funny.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

255. “There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

256. “Most of those who look down on people who sell their bodies look up to some of those who sell their souls.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

258. “Most sane people feel happy way less often than they act happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

260. “To live is to owe life to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

262. “Most people are tormented by the conflict between their fear of standing out and their desire to be the center of attention.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

263. “Sometimes a fool says something wise without the intention to do that, and the awareness of having done that.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

264. “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

265. “The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

266. “It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

267. “It is extremely rare for most people to give you advice without thinking they are better or smarter than you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

268. “The overwhelming joy the artist gets from bringing art into existence, the mystic gets from existence.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

270. “We seem to birds to be chained to planet Earth.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

271. “Those who died quietly asleep are not less dead than those who were killed awake by bombs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

272. “Learning how to live would take most people at least three lifetimes.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

273. “Appearances can be deceiving: Some of those who own the most expensive homes look homeless.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

274. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

277. “The main source of some poor people’s misery is, not their being poor, but some people’s not being poor.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

278. “Some hills are each only a few centimeters short of being a mountain.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

279. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

281. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

283. “Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

285. “Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

286. “Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

287. “Some people will hate you for not loving them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

288. “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

289. “Life sometimes shows kindheartedness by not handing us the success or fame we want, until we have matured enough to be able to handle it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

290. “Thinking that someone is wrong is a very common way of being wrong.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

291. “To take away a man’s sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

292. “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

293. “There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

296. “Masochism is an unforgettable reminder of the spiritual fact that every experience, even pain or suffering, can be enjoyed.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

297. “Only a fraction of sane people enjoy their own company. The rest endure it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

300. “Feeling sorry for the prey for being killed by the predator prevents us from being happy for the predator for not being about to be killed by hunger.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana