Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes - Page 6

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.
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If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.
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We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.
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Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.
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Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.
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A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.
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Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.
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Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.
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People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
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In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.
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Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
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If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
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Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.
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High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.
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There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.
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Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.
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If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.
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*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed,* when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living.
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Speaking about work isn’t working.
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Your relationship or marriage is dead or dying, if you almost always have to remind your partner to miss you (and/or they almost always have to remind you to miss them).
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Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.
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Ambition is greed without makeup.
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Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
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Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.
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It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.
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Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.
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School overpopulates students’ minds with too much of what happened yesterday; seldom with what the students can do today, or, tomorrow.
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Thou shalt not tweet to be retweeted.
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A blank cheque kills creativity.
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Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.
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Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.
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We the living are to blame for the painfulness of being dead.
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Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.
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An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear.
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The presence of confidence can make an unable man appear able. While its absence can make an able man appear unable.
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Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.
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To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.
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If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books.
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To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.
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Some people will hate you for not loving them.
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There is a correlation between one’s estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they’re currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship.
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Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.
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By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
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One of the most common and most dangerous misbeliefs is that it is impossible for someone to be stupid just because they are a doctor or a lawyer.
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Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.
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What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.
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Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
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Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.
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The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.
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Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.
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Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt.
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Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.
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Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
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Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.
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When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.
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Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.
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Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.
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A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.
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Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.
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To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).
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