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Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes
“At times the best thing you can do for someone is to refuse to help them.”
“A life without some faculties is always full of difficulties.”
“You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person.”
“Many a woman secretly has a crush on a man who secretly has a crush on her man.”
“A family member is initially loved out of expectation … and is eventually loved out of habit.”
“We sometimes wish for the prosperity of someone who is secretly praying for our downfall.”
“When you are unhappy, happy people are disgusting.”
Source: F for Philosopher: A Collection of Funny Yet Profound Aphorisms
“Be careful what you wish for others, it just might get you.”
“It is childish to envy someone for something you do not need.”
“Our failures are way less likely than our successes to be ignored by our enemies.”
“The average person will never help you become better than them on purpose.”
“Our successes are seldom as sweet as our enemies’ failures.”
“Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.”
“Most love songs are either by a man praising a woman, or by a woman complaining about a man.”
“Increasing the volume does not improve the quality of a bad song.”
“To most human beings, wind is an irritation. To most trees, wind is a song.”
“We misunderstand the messages behind some of our most favourite songs.”
“Sometimes the only thing you can do is accept the fact that there is nothing you can do.”
“A thing or situation is often worsened by the attempt to improve it.”
“It is a rare blessing to see things, and to accept people, as they are.”
“We do not need to lose people or things to appreciate them.”
“Appreciating what you have is the best cure for missing what you have lost.”
“The highest degree of beauty is found on dark skin; that of ugliness, on light skin.”
“Makeup often makes a woman look like she has lotioned her face with a roll-on deodorant.”
“We are often deceived by a selfie into thinking that someone does not think that they are ugly.”
“A beautiful woman’s ugliness is often hidden in her heart … or by her shoes.”
“Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.”
“An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.”