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.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Your friends love you for who you are. Your family loves you for what you are.

I am obsessed with not being obsessed with acquiring material things.

Some men would not still be HIV negative or alive, if they had managed to sleep with some of the women with whom they want or wanted to have sex.

Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live.

Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are.

To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).

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

Masturbation = Imagination + Activity. Worry = Imagination + Negativity.

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.

Life is merely one very long day that routinely gets dark to give people a sensible excuse to keep their eyes closed for 8 hours.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.

Nothing humbles a rich man better than a poor man that isn’t willing to do ‘anything’ for money.

Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white.

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

Friends are family members we have a choice over.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person.

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.

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.

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

A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist.

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.