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“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.”

“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”

“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.”

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Patriotism is the narcissism of countries.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.”

“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”

“Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.”

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

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

“Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.”

“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.”

“Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.”

“Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.”

“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.”

“A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.”

“Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.”

“The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.”

“Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.”

“We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.”

“We know way too many words of wisdom, but perform all too few actions of wisdom.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.”

“Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.”

“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”

“Only someone who isn’t a fool stands a chance of not being bothered by being deemed a fool by a fool.”

“Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.”

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”

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“To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”

“Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore.”

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.”

“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.”

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.”

“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.”

“The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.”

“Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.”

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P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound AphorismsRelated source material

The Use and Misuse of ChildrenRelated source material

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-upsRelated source material

On Friendship: A Satirical EssayRelated source material

The Confessions of a MisfitRelated source material

The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on AltruismRelated source material

Divided & ConqueredRelated source material

On Masturbation: A Satirical EssayRelated source material

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