Mokokoma Mokhonoana
658 quotes
"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."
"We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know."
"A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don’t have … to prove the love they think they have."
"Most people can’t stand spending a few minutes by themself. Yet they expect others to spend an hour, a day, or, even a lifetime, with them."
"You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
"Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy."
"I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob."
"Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them."
"The phrase *You complete me* is nonsensical. A couple is a *we* … not a complete *me.*"
"Those who say that money can’t buy you love make it sound as if love can buy you money."
"98% of all comedians feel obliged to be funny when interviewed. Less than 2% succeed."
"To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf."
"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
"For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person."
"Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days."
"Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture)."
"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain."
"Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones."
"Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes."
"Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to."
"Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them."
"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
"Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal."
"Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence."