Quotes by Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.

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.

Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.

There would definitely be way fewer instances of cheating, if the average couple did not have sex only when the woman feels like it.

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.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

He with the cleanest clothes isn’t necessarily the cleanest.

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

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

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

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

Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.