Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes

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.

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.

Most people do not have a problem with you thinking for yourself, as long as your conclusions are the same as or at least compatible with their beliefs.

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

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.

We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

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

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.

Expensive clothing is a poor man’s attempt to appear prosperous.

In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.

It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

Freedom of speech gives us the right to offend others, whereas freedom of thought gives them the choice as to whether or not to be offended.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

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.

A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves.

If everybody was treated like they matter — everyday; birthdays wouldn’t be so *special.*

If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion.

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

The smiles of the unhappiest are often the widest.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

There is a correlation between the number of days since a man last had sex, and, the number of things that he is willing to do for a woman.

Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

If love wasn't conditional, everybody would be in love with everybody.

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.

The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn’t choose where he was born; and where he was born didn’t choose him.

Reality is what people who lack vision see.

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

When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.

Education is what they equip you with; just in case your dream doesn't workout.

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.

The average person’s self-esteem is so low that they are way less frequently surprised that they love someone than they are surprised that someone loves them.

Being shy is a symptom of a low self-esteem.

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday; valentine’s day wouldn’t be so 'special.

Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get.

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.

To see a man’s true colours, tell him that you don’t plan on having sex with him. To see a woman’s true colours, tell her that you don’t plan on marrying her.

An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.

Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

Life demands more thinking than remembering.

We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us.

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.

98% of the things said by a drunk man are true; 98% of those said by a horny man aren’t.

Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced; it also imprisons the protected.

Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.

As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions.

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

It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

When a joker dies, the joke remains.

Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.

The news is glorified gossip.

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard.

The best fights are those fought by those without a Plan B.

Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' … until they fall for a man that likes them back; but isn’t willing to leave his lover for them.

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

12% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to see better. 88% of people with glasses wear them as an attempt to appear smarter.

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

If human beings weren’t ‘dumbable’ enough to be made soldiers, war would be nothing but an exchange of swear words between a handful of individuals.

Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.

Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another’s sex life.

When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed.