Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes - Page 3

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

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.

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

If love wasn’t conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*

The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today.

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

Technically, you cannot really own a book you bought; you can only own the sheets of paper your copy is printed on; unless, of course, you are the book’s publisher.

Assuming that all ‘unschooled’ people to lack education is akin to assuming that a salary is the only means to make money, or, that a vagina or a penis is the only source of an orgasm.

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.

Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks.

Some mistakes are worse than others: wearing your underwear inside out isn’t as uncomfortable as wearing it back to front.

A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee’s dream on hold.

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

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

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.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.