Quotessence
Home / Authors / Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

Author

Filter quotes by topic

Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

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

“To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?”

“Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.”

“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

“The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.”

“A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.”

“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”

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

“Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.”

“Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs; some wear one to conceal their age.”

“Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.”

“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”

“Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.”

“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is).”

“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.”

“If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.”

“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”

“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”

“Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.”

“Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.”

“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).”

“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.”

“Some women’s greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women’s greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.”

“Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said.”

“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.”

“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.”

“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.”

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”

“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”

“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”

“The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.”

“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”

“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.”

“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.”

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”