Top 500 Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Being older deceives us into thinking that we are experts at being the ages we used to be.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

352. “We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

353. “People and things cannot really make us happy or unhappy. They can merely make us decide to be happy or unhappy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

354. “Whoever that came up with the idea of people having to have ‘a dream’ sure knew how to keep these creatures called human beings preoccupied.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

356. “Some people are so self-conscious that they are unable to make eye contact for longer than a second, even when they are wearing dark sunglasses.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

357. “To most human beings, wind is an irritation. To most trees, wind is a song.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

358. “99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

359. “Some people make it extremely difficult to continue believing that complaining is not one of the basic human needs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

360. “Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

361. “Some people are happily single. Some are unhappily married.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

362. “An event need not have been witnessed to have happened.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

363. “Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

364. “Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

366. “A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

367. “There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

368. “It is even more foolish to buy an unnecessary thing on credit.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

369. “Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

370. “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

371. “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

372. “You can feel like you will starve to death if you do not eat within 21 seconds; not eat at all; and still be alive after 21 days.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

373. “Only those who are stupid mind coming across as stupid.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

374. “By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

375. “Most people are just a waste of sanity.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

376. “Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

377. “Small-mindedness is intensified by things such as big-headedness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

378. “Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

380. “It is so much easier for most people to ignore an insult than it is for them to ignore a compliment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

381. “Some people who have been sentenced for life for crimes they did not commit are usually blissful, whereas many people who can go to any part of planet earth are usually miserable.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

382. “Everyone is the most important person in the world to themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

383. “Most people often greet out of pity or insecurity.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

384. “We sometimes consciously attempt to make someone feel inferior, usually as a subconscious attempt to make ourselves feel superior.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

386. “You cannot really stop aging. You can only delay or hide some of its effects.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

387. “Some people are so impatient that they ask you for a favour as soon as they are done complimenting you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

388. “Education teaches us how to make a living, not how to live.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

389. “We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

390. “In countless cases, parenthood has been the worst attempt to contribute something positive to the world.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

391. “Although they pretended to be angry, and because that finally destroyed their guilt, some people were each secretly happy to discover that their partner has cheated on them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

392. “Every action is a reaction.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

393. “Some people are each way more hurt by their worst enemy’s success than they were hurt by their then best friend’s death.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

394. “Not everything happens for a reason; we claim that it does for a reason: to console ourselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

395. “Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

396. “Ignorance often makes a complicated thing seem simple, or vice versa.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

397. “Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

398. “We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

399. “To most women, size does count, but – if the man is rich, powerful, or famous – it does not matter.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

400. “More than 99.99% of facts are not and will never be useful to even a single person.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana