“Life keeps on making the terrible mistake of making impatient people capable of making children.”
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Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes
“Many of us are failed secret attempts to keep our parents together.”
“The triviality of a question does not make a profound answer an impossibility.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.”
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
Source: The Use and Misuse of Children
“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”
“Destroying your mirrors leaves your facial blemishes intact.”
“Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.”
Source: The Confessions of a Misfit
“High-priced possessions are all too often used as makeup … to hide low self-esteem.”
“Selfies often deceive us into believing that some people love themselves, or the way they look.”
“We often do not, not because we cannot, but because we think so.”
“Every sane adult is insecure about at least one thing on or about them.”
“A question is as capable as an answer of unintentionally revealing ignorance or stupidity.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Most people would usually rather guess the wrong answer than say that they do not know.”
“No truly intelligent person shows off the number of books they read in a week, month, or year.”
“Solitude makes it possible for us to literally enjoy ourselves.”
“The only thing most of us love about most of our family members is that they are related to us.”
“Everyone who is the world to you is just another person in the world to almost everyone.”
“Some people’s deaths would not have pained us had we not known that to them we were related.”
“The shorter one’s life, the longer the list of loved ones one will not have had to bury.”
“All too often someone spoils my enjoyment of their company by talking to me.”
“We often do or speak, not because of necessity, but because of insecurity.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay