Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

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.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

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

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.

Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive.

Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.

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.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.

Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.

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

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.