Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Some people are so lazy that praying is always their plan A.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

252. “Poison is not merciful towards people who have consumed it unknowingly.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

253. “A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

254. “An orgasm is an act of laughing through the genitals.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

257. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

259. “Some women would not have contracted an STD or STDs had they not been on the pill.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

261. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

266. “To live is to owe life to die.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

268. “Our friends are often secretly made happy, or less unhappy, by their finding out about our problems, because that reminds them that they are not the only ones who have problems; that some people’s problems are way bigger than theirs; or that some people, unlike them, have real problems.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

270. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

273. “Sanity is a never-ending tug of war between oneself, pulling one’s attention towards happiness, and one’s mind, pulling it towards unhappiness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

275. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

284. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

287. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

290. “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

291. “Being grateful for the shade of a tree is not nearly as honourable as planting a tree.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

295. “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

296. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

298. “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

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana