Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Death would be an extremely bad thing like most of us paint it, if being dead were painful.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will never love each other.

Unless it is you, finding out who your lover’s dream lover is is a nightmare.

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

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).

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

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 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.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman.

Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.

Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.

One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.

Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.